NY State Senate Bill 2021-S3695

Senate Bill S3695

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to notification requirements for traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices and photo speed violation monitoring systems

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Jan 05, 2022	referred to transportation
Jan 30, 2021	referred to transportation

2021-S3695 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Add §§1111-f & 1180-e, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S6719
2019-2020: S696
2023-2024: S2113

2021-S3695 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to notification requirements for traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices and photo speed violation monitoring systems.

2021-S3695 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S3695

SPONSOR: FELDER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to notification
requirements for traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring
devices and photo speed violation monitoring systems

 
PURPOSE:

This bill would require that street notifications be posted whenever a
photo violation-monitoring device is in use.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one would amend the vehicle and traffic law by adding a new
section 1111-f that requires any city or county authorized to install
and operate a traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices
shall install street signs within a hundred feet that state the device
is in use.

Section two would amend the vehicle and traffic law by adding a new
section 1180-e that requires any city or county authorized to install
and operate a photo violation-monitoring devices shall install street
signs within a hundred feet that state the device is in use.

Section three, this act shall take effect immediately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

If speed cameras were truly about improving safety and not as way to
raise revenue, then notifying drivers where speed cameras are located
would only serve to slow down drivers in those areas. According to data
from NYC DOT, "Speeding during school hours at typical fixed camera
locations drops more than 63 percent." If drivers knew the cameras were
there, the number of people speeding would decrease even further.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2017/2018: S.6719 - Referred to Transportation
2019/2020: 8.696 - Referred to Transportation

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Minimal, cost of signs

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S3695 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3695
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- 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 notification
   requirements for  traffic-control  signal  photo  violation-monitoring
   devices and photo speed violation monitoring systems

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 1111-f to read as follows:
   §  1111-F.  TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL PHOTO VIOLATION-MONITORING DEVICES;
 NOTICE. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE  OR  REGULATION
 TO  THE  CONTRARY,  A  CITY  OR COUNTY AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL AND OPERATE
 TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL PHOTO VIOLATION-MONITORING  DEVICES  PURSUANT  TO
 THE  PROVISIONS  OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL INSTALL STREET SIGNS AND PAVEMENT
 MARKINGS LOCATED ONE HUNDRED FEET, OR AS CLOSE AS  PRACTICABLE,  FROM  A
 TRAFFIC-CONTROL  SIGNAL  UTILIZING  A  PHOTO VIOLATION-MONITORING DEVICE
 STATING THAT A TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL PHOTO VIOLATION-MONITORING  DEVICE
 IS IN USE.
   §  2.  The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
 1180-e to read as follows:
   § 1180-E. PHOTO SPEED VIOLATION MONITORING SYSTEMS; NOTICE.   NOTWITH-
 STANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY,
 A CITY OR COUNTY AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL AND OPERATE PHOTO SPEED VIOLATION
 MONITORING  SYSTEMS  PURSUANT  TO  SECTIONS  ELEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-B AND
 ELEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-D OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL INSTALL STREET  SIGNS  AND
 PAVEMENT  MARKINGS LOCATED ONE HUNDRED FEET, OR AS CLOSE AS PRACTICABLE,
 FROM THE PHOTO SPEED VIOLATION MONITORING SYSTEM STATING  THAT  A  PHOTO
 SPEED VIOLATION MONITORING SYSTEM IS IN USE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08180-01-1

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