Senate Bill S77

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Enacts the "FURIOUS Act" authorizing the city of New York to operate photo speed violation monitoring systems in a school speed zone which the city has identified as an area of special concern for street racing

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S77 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A579
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1180-b & 1182, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S8980, A11042

2021-S77 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "FURIOUS Act" authorizing the city of New York to operate photo speed violation monitoring systems at any time in a school speed zone which the city of New York has identified as an area of special concern for illegal street racing.

2021-S77 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S77 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    77
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to enacting the
   "FURIOUS Act"

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "Fighting
 Underground Racing In Our Streets Act" or "The FURIOUS Act."
   §  2.  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 and a new paragraph 1-a is added 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., EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH ONE-A OF
 THIS  SUBDIVISION.  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 week-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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