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Assembly Bill A7251

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Removes limitations on the hours of operation of a demonstration program imposing fines for failure of a vehicle operator to comply with posted maximum speed limits in a school speed zone in the city of New York

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2021-A7251 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1493
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1180-b, V & T L

2021-A7251 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes limitations on the hours of operation of a demonstration program; imposes fines for failure of a vehicle operator to comply with posted maximum speed limits in a school speed zone in the city of New York.

2021-A7251 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7251
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 29, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the hours of
   operation of a demonstration program imposing fines for failure  of  a
   vehicle  operator  to  comply  with  posted  maximum speed limits in a
   school speed zone in the city of New York
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  1  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:
   1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York is
 hereby authorized to establish a demonstration program imposing monetary
 liability  on  the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof
 to comply with posted maximum speed limits in a school speed zone within
 such city (i) when a school speed limit is  in  effect  as  provided  in
 paragraphs  one  and  two  of  subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred
 eighty of this article or (ii) when other speed limits are in effect  as
 provided  in  subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred
 eighty of this article [weekdays between the hours of six  o'clock  A.M.
 and  ten  o'clock  P.M.].   Such demonstration program shall empower the
 city of New York to install photo  speed  violation  monitoring  systems
 within  no  more than seven hundred fifty school speed zones within such
 city at any one time and to operate such systems within such zones (iii)
 when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and
 two of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this  article
 or (iv) when other speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivision
 (b),  (d),  (f)  or (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article
 [weekdays between the hours of six o'clock A.M.  and ten o'clock P.M.].
  In selecting a school speed zone in which  to  install  and  operate  a
 photo  speed  violation  monitoring  system,  the city of New York shall
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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