Bill Text: NY S05300 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Permits the installation of cameras on traffic lights in the town of Wallkill; relates to owner liability for failure to comply with traffic control indications.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-17 - referred to transportation [S05300 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05300-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5300--B 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 13, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the general municipal law, in relation to owner liability for failure of operator to comply with traffic-control indications; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof 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 1111-f to read as follows: 3 § 1111-f. Owner liability for failure of operator to comply with 4 traffic-control indications. (a) 1. Notwithstanding any other provision 5 of law, the town of Wallkill, in the county of Orange is hereby author- 6 ized and empowered to adopt and amend a local law or ordinance estab- 7 lishing a demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner 8 of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic- 9 control indications in such town in accordance with the provisions of 10 this section. Such demonstration program shall empower such town to 11 install and operate traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring 12 devices at no more than four intersections within such town at any one 13 time. 14 2. Such demonstration program shall utilize necessary technologies to 15 ensure, to the extent practicable, that photographs produced by such 16 traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring systems shall not 17 include images that identify the driver, the passengers, or the contents 18 of the vehicle. Provided, however, that no notice of liability issued EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10903-06-6