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                                   1076
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  directing the commissioner of motor vehicles to conduct a study
   on the distribution of traffic fines
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The commissioner of motor vehicles shall conduct a study in
 cooperation  and  consultation  with  the  New York State Association of
 Towns, the New York Conference of Mayors and  Municipal  Officials,  and
 the  New  York State Magistrates Association relating to the disposition
 of fines and penalties as provided in section 1803 of  the  vehicle  and
 traffic  law.  Such study shall include, but not be limited to, an exam-
 ination of the distribution of fine revenue according to  the  jurisdic-
 tion  over the highway where a violation occurred, the statute violated,
 whether the statute violated is a state law or a  local  ordinance,  and
 the  annual  per  capita monetary cap on revenues applicable to villages
 and suburban towns. In conducting this study,  such  commissioner  shall
 examine  particularly  the  fairness of the current law as it relates to
 the disposition of fines collected for violations under title 7  of  the
 vehicle  and  traffic law, with special attention given to violations of
 section 1180 of the vehicle and traffic law.
   § 2. Upon completion of the study but no later than  the  thirty-first
 of December next succeeding the date on which this act shall have become
 a law, the commissioner of motor vehicles shall submit a report based on
 the  findings  of  the study to the governor, the temporary president of
 the senate, the speaker of the assembly,  the  minority  leader  of  the
 senate,  the  minority  leader  of the assembly, the chair of the senate
 transportation committee, and the chair of the  assembly  transportation
 committee  which  shall  include  the  findings  of the study as well as
 recommendations for statutory changes that may be implemented  in  order
 to  ensure  a  more  equitable distribution of revenue for violations of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD03034-01-9

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 title 7 of the vehicle and traffic law, with special attention given  to
 violations of section 1180 of the vehicle and traffic law.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.