NY State Senate Bill 2019-S2783

Senate Bill S2783

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Directs the New York city transit authority and metropolitan transportation authority to ensure the proper operation of security cameras at subway stations and report thereon

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2019-S2783 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§1204 & 1265, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S6348
2017-2018: S591
2021-2022: S5832
2023-2024: S8875

2019-S2783 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the New York city transit authority and metropolitan transportation authority to ensure the proper operation of security cameras at subway stations and report thereon.

2019-S2783 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S2783

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to directing the
metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit
authority to ensure proper operation of security cameras at subway
stations and issue reports thereon

 
PURPOSE:

This bill directs the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to ensure
proper operation of all security cameras in its operated subway
stations, as well as publish annual reports as to instances of failures
and the causes thereof

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends the Public Authorities Law, as it pertains to the New
York City Transit Authority, to direct the MTA to ensure proper opera-

tion of all security cameras in its operated subway stations, as well as
to publish annual reports as to instances of failures and the causes of
such failures.

Section 2 amends the Public Authorities Law, as it pertains to the
Metropolitan Transit Authority, to direct the MTA to ensure proper oper-
ation of all security cameras in its operated subway stations, as well
as to publish annual reports as to instances of failures and the causes
of such failures.

Section 3 sets forth the effective date of this act.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill directs the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to implement
measures that will make subways a safer place for passengers.

Ensuring that all security cameras in New York City's subway system are
operational is essential to the safety of customers. As recently as
2010, Mayor Michael Bloomberg acknowledged that "a lot of those cameras
don't work" when published reports indicated that about half of subway
station security cameras were inoperative.

Where instances of injuries and fatalities on New York City subway
tracks have escalated in recent years, it is important for security
cameras to be in constant operation to determine the causes of these
incidents.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S591 PERALTA No Same as

 
FISCAL IMPACT:

Minimal.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act will take effect immediately.

2019-S2783 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2783
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to directing the
   metropolitan transportation authority and the New  York  city  transit
   authority  to  ensure  proper  operation of security cameras at subway
   stations and issue reports thereon
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.   Section 1204 of the public authorities law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 16-b to read as follows:
   16-B. (A) THE AUTHORITY SHALL ENSURE PROPER OPERATION OF ALL  SECURITY
 CAMERAS AT ALL SUBWAY STATIONS OPERATED BY SUCH AUTHORITY.
   (B)  THE  AUTHORITY  IS  FURTHER  DIRECTED TO PUBLISH AN ANNUAL REPORT
 RELATING TO THE PROPER OPERATION OF SECURITY CAMERAS AT SUBWAY STATIONS,
 WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
   (1) THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SYSTEMWIDE INCIDENTS OF SECURITY CAMERA  FAIL-
 URES  OCCURRING  WITHIN  A CALENDAR YEAR, AS WELL AS A METRIC INDICATING
 THE PERCENTAGE OF ALL SYSTEMWIDE SECURITY CAMERAS  HAVING  FAILED  AT  A
 POINT DURING A CALENDAR YEAR;
   (2)  THE LENGTH OF TIME THAT EACH SECURITY CAMERA EXPERIENCING A FAIL-
 URE WAS MALFUNCTIONING FOR;
   (3) WHEN DETERMINABLE, A METRIC INDICATING  THE  CAUSE  OR  CAUSES  OF
 SECURITY CAMERA FAILURES WITHIN A CALENDAR YEAR; AND
   (4)  A  LIST OF SECURITY CAMERA FAILURES OCCURRING WITHIN THE CALENDAR
 YEAR, DELINEATED BY EACH SUBWAY STATION OPERATED BY THE AUTHORITY.
   § 2. Section 1265 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 12-a to read as follows:
   12-A. (A) THE AUTHORITY SHALL ENSURE PROPER OPERATION OF ALL  SECURITY
 CAMERAS AT ALL SUBWAY STATIONS OPERATED BY SUCH AUTHORITY.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05646-01-9

 S. 2783                             2
 
   (B)  SUCH  AUTHORITY  IS  FURTHER DIRECTED TO PUBLISH AN ANNUAL REPORT
 RELATING TO THE PROPER OPERATION OF SECURITY CAMERAS AT SUBWAY STATIONS,
 WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
   (I)  THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SYSTEMWIDE INCIDENTS OF SECURITY CAMERA FAIL-
 URES OCCURRING WITHIN A CALENDAR YEAR, AS WELL AS  A  METRIC  INDICATING
 THE  PERCENTAGE  OF  ALL  SYSTEMWIDE SECURITY CAMERAS HAVING FAILED AT A
 POINT DURING A CALENDAR YEAR;
   (II) THE LENGTH OF TIME THAT EACH SECURITY CAMERA EXPERIENCING A FAIL-
 URE WAS MALFUNCTIONING FOR;
   (III) WHEN DETERMINABLE, A METRIC INDICATING THE CAUSE  OR  CAUSES  OF
 SECURITY CAMERA FAILURES WITHIN A CALENDAR YEAR; AND
   (IV)  A LIST OF SECURITY CAMERA FAILURES OCCURRING WITHIN THE CALENDAR
 YEAR, DELINEATED BY EACH SUBWAY STATION OPERATED BY THE AUTHORITY.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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