Assembly Bill A7997

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the use of certain photo speed violation monitoring systems for the purposes of enforcement of license plate obstruction; repealer

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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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2025-A7997 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7336
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1180-b, 235, 236, 239, 240, 241, 1809 & 1809-e, rpld §237 subs 12 & 13, V & T L; add §3-b, amd §15, Chap 189 of 2013

2025-A7997 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits the use of photo speed violation monitoring systems in New York city for the purposes of enforcement of license plate obstruction, concealment, and/or distortion; extends provisions permitting the use of speed cameras in certain school zones.

2025-A7997 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7997
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the  use  of
   photo  speed violation monitoring systems for the purposes of enforce-
   ment of license  plate  obstruction,  concealment,  and/or  distortion
   violations  in  the city of New York; to amend chapter 189 of the laws
   of 2013, amending the vehicle and traffic law and the public  officers
   law  relating  to  establishing  in  a  city  with a population of one
   million or more a demonstration program implementing  speed  violation
   monitoring systems in school speed zones by means of photo devices, in
   relation to making technical corrections and extending such provisions
   related  thereto;  and to repeal certain provisions of the vehicle and
   traffic law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  3  of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of the
 vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 189 of the laws of 2013, is
 amended to read as follows:
   3. Operators of MOBILE photo speed violation monitoring systems  shall
 have  completed  training in the procedures for setting up, testing, and
 operating such systems. Each such operator shall  complete  and  sign  a
 daily  set-up  log  for  each such system that [he or she operates] THEY
 OPERATE that (i) states the date and time when, and the location  where,
 the  system  was  set  up  that  day, and (ii) states that such operator
 successfully performed, and the system passed, the  self-tests  of  such
 system  before  producing  a  recorded  image that day. STATIONARY PHOTO
 SPEED VIOLATION MONITORING SYSTEMS SHALL COMPLETE A DAILY SELF-TEST  FOR
 EACH  SUCH  SYSTEM  THAT IS OPERATED STATING (I) THE DATE AND TIME WHEN,
 AND THE LOCATION WHERE, THE SYSTEM WAS SET UP; AND (II) THAT THE  SYSTEM
 PASSED  THE  SELF-TEST  OF SUCH SYSTEM BEFORE PRODUCING A RECORDED IMAGE
 THAT DAY. The city shall retain each such daily log OR  DAILY  SELF-TEST
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11567-02-5
              

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