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                                  5259--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. DINOWITZ, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, SEAWRIGHT, BURDICK,
   EPSTEIN, COLTON, GLICK, SIMONE,  CUNNINGHAM,  SIMON,  CARROLL,  AUBRY,
   BICHOTTE HERMELYN,  JACKSON,  GIBBS,  ALVAREZ,  BURGOS, ARDILA, CHANG,
   LEE, TAYLOR, DAVILA, TAPIA, L. ROSENTHAL, BORES, RAJKUMAR, DAIS, CRUZ,
   DE LOS SANTOS, RAGA, DICKENS, BENEDETTO, ANDERSON  --  Multi-Sponsored
   by  --  M.  of  A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Transportation  in
   accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative code
   of the city of New York, in  relation  to  increasing  the  number  of
   intersections  where traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring
   systems may be installed and operated; to amend  chapter  746  of  the
   laws of 1988, amending the vehicle and traffic law, the general munic-
   ipal  law  and the public officers law relating to the civil liability
   of vehicle owners for traffic control signal violations,  in  relation
   to  extending the effectiveness thereof; and to amend local law number
   46 of the city of New York for the year 1989, amending the administra-
   tive code of the city of New York relating to civil liability of vehi-
   cle owners for traffic  control  signal  violations,  in  relation  to
   extending the effectiveness thereof
 
   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  1111-a  of  the
 vehicle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2009,
 is amended to read as follows:
   1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each city with a  popu-
 lation  of  one  million  or  more is hereby authorized and empowered to
 adopt and amend a local law or ordinance  establishing  a  demonstration
 program  imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 ure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
 such city in accordance with the provisions of this section. Such demon-
 stration program shall empower a city to install  and  operate  traffic-
 control  signal photo violation-monitoring devices at no more than [one]
 SIX hundred [fifty] intersections within such city at any one time.
   § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 19-210 of the  adminis-
 trative  code  of  the city of New York, as amended by chapter 18 of the
 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parking  violations
 bureau  is  hereby authorized and empowered to establish a demonstration
 program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for  fail-
 ure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
 accordance with the provisions of this section. The department of trans-
 portation,  for  purposes  of  implementation  of such program, shall be
 authorized to install and operate traffic-control  signal  photo  viola-
 tion-monitoring devices at no more than [one] SIX hundred [fifty] inter-
 sections at any one time.
   § 3. Section 17 of chapter 746 of the laws of 1988, amending the vehi-
 cle  and traffic law, the general municipal law, and the public officers
 law relating to the  civil  liability  of  vehicle  owners  for  traffic
 control signal violations, as amended by section 5 of part TT of chapter
 58 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   §  17.  This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a  law;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  SECTIONS  FOUR,  TWELVE,
 FIFTEEN and SIXTEEN shall [remain in full force and effect until] EXPIRE
 AND  BE DEEMED REPEALED December 1, [2024 when upon such date the amend-
 ments and provisions made by this act shall be  deemed  repealed]  2027;
 provided,  however,  any  such  local laws as may be enacted pursuant to
 this act shall remain in full force and effect only until the expiration
 on December 1, [2024] 2027.
   § 4. Section 2 of local law number 46 of the city of New York for  the
 year  1989  amending  the  administrative  code  of the city of New York
 relating to civil liability of vehicle owners for traffic control signal
 violations, as amended by section 6 of part TT of chapter 58 of the laws
 of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   § 2. This local law shall take effect immediately and shall expire  on
 December 1, [2024] 2027.
   §  5.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided that sections
 one and two of this act shall take effect on the sixtieth day  after  it
 shall  have  become a law; provided further however, that the amendments
 to section 1111-a of the vehicle and traffic law made by section one  of
 this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed
 to  be repealed therewith; and provided, further, that the amendments to
 section 19-210 of the administrative code of the city of New  York  made
 by  section  two  of  this  act  shall not affect the expiration of such
 section and shall be deemed to expire therewith. Effective  immediately,
 any rules or regulations necessary for the implementation of this act on
 its  effective  date  shall  be  promulgated on or before such effective
 date.