Bill Text: NY S06147 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires certain for-hire vehicles to install and maintain an interior rear-facing video camera.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06147 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06147-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6147--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 20, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- commit- tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom- mitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to requiring certain for-hire vehicles to install and maintain an interior rear-facing video camera The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 140 of the transportation law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 11 to read as follows: 3 11. a. All commercial motor vehicles that transport passengers for- 4 hire with a seating capacity of six passengers or less except for a 5 black car, limousine, or luxury limousine, as such terms are defined in 6 section 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New York, or as 7 otherwise defined in local law, shall be required to install and main- 8 tain an interior rear-facing video camera. Such video camera shall be 9 recording at all times the vehicle is being operated for the purpose of 10 for-hire transportation, and at minimum shall: 11 (i) capture and record any operator or passenger who enters or exits 12 the vehicle; 13 (ii) store, at a minimum, the sixty most recent hours of operation; 14 and 15 (iii) have the ability to transmit data or otherwise provide access to 16 local law enforcement and the local regulatory authority which has 17 licensed the motor vehicle for for-hire transportation services. 18 b. The requirement set forth in this subdivision shall not limit the 19 brand or provider of video cameras which can be utilized to comply with 20 this subdivision. Rather, any commercial video camera that meets the 21 minimum requirements of this subdivision shall be considered as comply- 22 ing with this subdivision. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11666-02-9S. 6147--A 2 1 c. No law or regulation shall prohibit the installation and use of a 2 front-facing camera as long as the minimum requirements set forth in 3 paragraph a of this subdivision are met. Where such video camera system 4 also has a front-facing video camera, the vehicle owner's motor vehicle 5 insurance provider must have similar access to such data. 6 d. The requirement set forth in this subdivision shall supersede any 7 local regulation of video cameras installed in commercial motor vehicles 8 engaged in the for-hire transport of passengers. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 10 have become a law.