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                                   6519
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 5, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  vehicle  and  traffic law, in relation to owner
   liability for failure of operator to comply with certain posted  maxi-
   mum  speed  limits in the town of Yorktown, Westchester county; and to
   amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  making  technical
   corrections
 
   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 "Jake's Law".
   § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-e of  the  vehicle
 and traffic law, as added by chapter 421 of the laws of 2021, is amended
 to read as follows:
   1. (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner of
 transportation 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 highway
 construction or maintenance work area  located  on  a  controlled-access
 highway  (i)  when highway construction or maintenance work is occurring
 and a work area speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraph two of
 subdivision (d) or subdivision (f) of section eleven hundred  eighty  of
 this  article  or  (ii) when highway construction or maintenance work is
 occurring and other speed limits are in effect as provided  in  subdivi-
 sion  (b)  or  (g) or paragraph one of subdivision (d) of section eleven
 hundred eighty of this article. Such demonstration program shall empower
 the commissioner to install photo  speed  violation  monitoring  systems
 within  no  more  than  twenty  highway construction or maintenance work
 areas located on controlled-access highways and to operate such  systems
 within  such  work  areas (iii) when highway construction or maintenance
 work is occurring and a work area speed limit is in effect  as  provided
 in paragraph two of subdivision (d) or subdivision (f) of section eleven
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 hundred  eighty  of  this  article  or (iv) when highway construction or
 maintenance work is occurring and other speed limits are  in  effect  as
 provided  in  subdivision (b) or (g) or paragraph one of subdivision (d)
 of  section  eleven hundred eighty of this article. The commissioner, in
 consultation with the superintendent of the division  of  state  police,
 shall  determine the location of the highway construction or maintenance
 work areas located on a controlled-access highway in  which  to  install
 and  operate  photo  speed  violation monitoring systems. In selecting a
 highway construction or maintenance work area in which  to  install  and
 operate  a  photo  speed  violation  monitoring system, the commissioner
 shall consider criteria including, but not limited to, the  speed  data,
 crash   history,   and  roadway  geometry  applicable  to  such  highway
 construction or maintenance work area. A photo speed violation  monitor-
 ing  system  shall  not  be installed or operated on a controlled-access
 highway exit ramp.
   (B) THE TOWN OF YORKTOWN, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, WITH RESPECT TO HIGHWAYS
 IN SUCH TOWN, BUT NOT INCLUDING STATE HIGHWAYS MAINTAINED BY THE  STATE,
 MAY  INSTALL  AND  OPERATE PHOTO SPEED VIOLATION MONITORING SYSTEMS: (I)
 WHEN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION OR MAINTENANCE WORK IS OCCURRING  AND  A  WORK
 AREA  SPEED  LIMIT IS IN EFFECT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH TWO OF SUBDIVI-
 SION (D) OR SUBDIVISION (F) OF SECTION ELEVEN  HUNDRED  EIGHTY  OF  THIS
 ARTICLE; OR (II) WHEN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION OR MAINTENANCE WORK IS OCCUR-
 RING AND OTHER SPEED LIMITS ARE IN EFFECT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (G)
 OR  PARAGRAPH ONE OF SUBDIVISION (D) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY OF
 THIS ARTICLE.
   § 3. Section 371-a of the general municipal law, as  separately  added
 by  chapters 421, 460 and 773 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 371-a. Additional jurisdiction and procedure related to the  adjudi-
 cation  of  certain  notices  of  liability. A traffic violations bureau
 established pursuant to  subdivision  one  and  a  traffic  and  parking
 violations  agency  established  pursuant  to subdivision two of section
 three hundred seventy-one of this article may be authorized  to  adjudi-
 cate,  in  accordance with the provisions of this article, the liability
 of owners: (a) for violations  of  subdivision  (d)  of  section  eleven
 hundred  eleven  of  the  vehicle  and traffic law imposed pursuant to a
 local law or ordinance imposing monetary liability on  the  owner  of  a
 vehicle  for  failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-con-
 trol indications through the installation and operation of  traffic-con-
 trol signal photo violation-monitoring systems, in accordance with arti-
 cle twenty-four of the vehicle and traffic law; or (b) for violations of
 section  eleven hundred seventy-four of the vehicle and traffic law when
 meeting a school bus marked and equipped  as  provided  in  subdivisions
 twenty  and  twenty-one-c  of  section three hundred seventy-five of the
 vehicle and traffic law imposed pursuant to a  local  law  or  ordinance
 imposing  monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an
 operator thereof to comply with school bus red  visual  signals  through
 the  installation and operation of school bus photo violation monitoring
 systems, in accordance with article twenty-nine of the vehicle and traf-
 fic law; or (c) for violations of subdivision (b), (d), (f)  or  (g)  of
 section  eleven  hundred  eighty  of the vehicle and traffic law imposed
 pursuant to a demonstration program imposing monetary liability  on  the
 owner  of  a  vehicle  for failure of an operator thereof to comply with
 such posted maximum speed limits  within  a  [highway]  construction  or
 maintenance  work  area  through the installation and operation of photo
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 speed violation monitoring systems, in accordance with article thirty of
 [this chapter] THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
   §  4.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law; provided that the amendments to section 1180-e of the
 vehicle and traffic law made by section two of this act shall not affect
 the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.