NY State Senate Bill 2019-S7742

Senate Bill S7742

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requirements for signs providing notice of the use of a photo speed violation monitoring system

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

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Delivered to Governor
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2019-S7742 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8569
Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§1180-b & 1180-d, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: A5194
2023-2024: A3035

2019-S7742 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires signs providing notice of the use of a photo speed violation monitoring system to be primarily yellow and be placed within fifty feet of a photo speed violation monitoring system.

2019-S7742 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7742

SPONSOR: SAVINO
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requirements
for signs providing notice of the use of a photo speed violation moni-
toring system

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

The purpose of this legislation is to alert the public with visible
signage when speed cameras are used in school zones.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. No speed cameras shall be in use in a school zone unless has
successfully passed a self-test and proper signage must be displayed
within 50 feet of said speed-zone.

Section 2. Speed cameras cannot be in use unless they pass a self-test

of functions and has undergone an annual calibration.

Section 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill is necessary to properly inform the public when speed cameras
are in use, through proper and visible signage. Signage should be visi-
ble to individuals operating motor vehicles in all directions of traffic
on approach to a speed zone area within 50 feet. This bill also requires
that cameras should be tested daily that they are functioning properly,
and if not, then they should not be in use until they can function prop-
erly.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have
become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to sections 1180-b
and 1180-d of the vehicle and traffic law made by sections one and two
of this act shall not affect the repeal of such sections and shall be
deemed repealed therewith.

2019-S7742 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7742
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 12, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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 requirements
   for signs providing notice of the use of a photo speed violation moni-
   toring system
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  2  of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of the
 vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws  of  2019,
 is amended to read as follows:
   2.  No  photo  speed  violation  monitoring  system shall be used in a
 school speed zone unless (i) on the day it is to be used it has success-
 fully passed a self-test of its functions; and (ii) it has undergone  an
 annual  calibration  check  performed pursuant to paragraph four of this
 subdivision. The city shall install signs giving notice  to  approaching
 motor  vehicle  operators that a photo speed violation monitoring system
 is in use, in conformance  with  standards  established  in  the  MUTCD.
 NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, SUCH SIGNS SHALL
 BE PRIMARILY YELLOW, INDICATE THAT THERE IS A SCHOOL SPEED ZONE AND THAT
 A PHOTO SPEED VIOLATION  MONITORING  SYSTEM  IS  BEING  USED  FOR  PHOTO
 ENFORCEMENT,  AND  SHALL BE PLACED WITHIN FIFTY FEET IN EITHER DIRECTION
 OF A PHOTO SPEED VIOLATION MONITORING SYSTEM.
   § 2. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-d of  the  vehicle
 and traffic law, as added by chapter 148 of the laws of 2019, is amended
 to read as follows:
   2.  No  photo  speed  violation  monitoring  system shall be used in a
 school speed zone unless (i) on the day it is to be used it has success-
 fully passed a self-test of its functions; and (ii) it has undergone  an
 annual  calibration  check  performed pursuant to paragraph four of this
 subdivision. The city shall install signs giving  notice  that  a  photo
 speed  violation  monitoring  system  is in use to be mounted on advance
 warning signs notifying motor vehicle operators of such upcoming  school
 speed  zone  and/or  on  speed limit signs applicable within such school
 speed zone, in conformance with  standards  established  in  the  MUTCD.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13643-05-0

 S. 7742                             2
 
 NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, SUCH SIGNS GIVING
 NOTICE THAT A PHOTO SPEED VIOLATION MONITORING SYSTEM IS IN USE SHALL BE
 PRIMARILY YELLOW, INDICATE THAT THERE IS A SCHOOL SPEED ZONE AND THAT  A
 PHOTO SPEED VIOLATION MONITORING SYSTEM IS BEING USED FOR PHOTO ENFORCE-
 MENT,  AND  SHALL  BE  PLACED WITHIN FIFTY FEET IN EITHER DIRECTION OF A
 PHOTO SPEED VIOLATION MONITORING SYSTEM.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law; provided, however, that the amendments to sections
 1180-b and 1180-d of the vehicle and traffic law made  by  sections  one
 and  two  of  this  act shall not affect the repeal of such sections and
 shall be deemed repealed therewith.

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