Assembly Bill A551

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to reducing the speed for owner liability for failure of operator to comply with certain posted maximum speed limits

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2023-A551 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1651
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1180-b, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8618
2021-2022: A1460, S8916

2023-A551 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Reduces the speed for owner liability for failure of operator to comply with certain posted maximum speed limits to more than seven miles per hour over such posted maximum speed limits.

2023-A551 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    551
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to reducing the
   speed for owner liability for  failure  of  operator  to  comply  with
   certain posted maximum speed limits

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (b) of section 1180-b of the vehicle and  traf-
 fic law, as added by chapter 189 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (b) If the city of New York establishes a demonstration program pursu-
 ant  to subdivision (a) of this section, the owner of a vehicle shall be
 liable for a penalty imposed pursuant to this section  if  such  vehicle
 was  used  or  operated  with  the  permission  of the owner, express or
 implied, within a school speed zone in violation of subdivision  (c)  or
 during  the times authorized pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section
 in violation of subdivision (b), (d),  (f)  or  (g)  of  section  eleven
 hundred eighty of this article, such vehicle was traveling at a speed of
 more  than  [ten]  SEVEN  miles per hour above the posted speed limit in
 effect within such school speed zone, and such violation is evidenced by
 information obtained from a photo  speed  violation  monitoring  system;
 provided however that no owner of a vehicle shall be liable for a penal-
 ty  imposed  pursuant to this section where the operator of such vehicle
 has been convicted of the underlying violation of subdivision (b),  (c),
 (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article.
   §  2.  Paragraphs  6 and 7 of subdivision (n) of section 1180-b of the
 vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws  of  2019,
 are amended to read as follows:
   6.  the  number  of  violations recorded within all school speed zones
 within the city that were:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00336-01-3
 A. 551                              2
              

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