Bill Text: NY S03132 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Suspends the registration of a vehicle which has been documented multiple times within a period by a photo violation monitoring device for failure to comply with traffic-control indications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S03132 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03132-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3132
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MYRIE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  suspending
          the registration of a vehicle which has been documented multiple times
          by  a  photo  violation  monitoring  device for failure of an operator
          thereof to comply with traffic-control indications
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 1118 to read as follows:
     3    § 1118. Failure to comply with traffic control signal. (a) The  regis-
     4  tration of a vehicle which has been documented six times within a twelve
     5  month  period  by  a photo violation monitoring device for failure of an
     6  operator thereof to comply with  traffic-control  indications  shall  be
     7  suspended  for  a  period  of fifteen days commencing ten days after the
     8  notice of liability for the sixth violation has been mailed.
     9    (b) The registration of a vehicle which has been documented nine times
    10  within a twenty-four month period by a photo violation monitoring device
    11  for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control  indi-
    12  cations  shall  be  suspended for a period of thirty days commencing ten
    13  days after the notice of liability for  the  ninth  violation  has  been
    14  mailed.
    15    (c)  The  registration  of  a vehicle which has been documented twelve
    16  times within a thirty-six month period by a photo  violation  monitoring
    17  device for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control
    18  indications  shall  be  suspended for a period of ninety days commencing
    19  ten days after the notice of liability for  the  twelfth  violation  has
    20  been mailed.
    21    (d)  This  section  shall not apply to a rental vehicle, as defined in
    22  section one hundred thirty-seven-a of this chapter.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01906-01-9
        S. 3132                             2
     1    (e) The department shall, by certified mail,  alert  the  owner  of  a
     2  registered  vehicle  after  the  vehicles fourth documentation in twelve
     3  months, seventh documentation in twenty-four months, and tenth  documen-
     4  tation  in  thirty-six months by a photo violation monitoring device for
     5  failure  of  an  operator  thereof  to comply with traffic-control indi-
     6  cations that such vehicle shall be suspended after two  more  documenta-
     7  tions.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.