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                                   8029
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 22, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  the  opera-
   tion  of  traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices in
   certain intersections in the county of Westchester

   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-g of the
 vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 501 of the laws of 2023, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the county of Westches-
 ter is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend a local law or
 ordinance establishing a demonstration program imposing monetary liabil-
 ity on the owner of a vehicle for failure  of  an  operator  thereof  to
 comply  with  traffic-control  indications  in such county in accordance
 with the provisions of this section. Such  demonstration  program  shall
 empower  such county to install and operate traffic-control signal photo
 violation-monitoring devices at no more than fifty intersections  within
 and  under  the  jurisdiction  of such county at any one time.  PROVIDED
 THAT, IN ADDITION TO THE FIFTY INTERSECTIONS WITHIN AND UNDER ITS JURIS-
 DICTION, SUCH COUNTY MAY  INSTALL  AND  OPERATE  TRAFFIC-CONTROL  SIGNAL
 PHOTO  VIOLATION-MONITORING  DEVICES  ON  INTERSECTIONS  LOCATED  ON THE
 PORTION OF THE SAW MILL RIVER PARKWAY WITHIN SUCH COUNTY THAT IS IN  THE
 VILLAGE  OF  PLEASANTVILLE, UPON AGREEMENT  WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF THE
 STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OR SUCH COMMISSIONER'S DESIGNEE.
   § 2.  Subdivision 13 of section 1803 of the vehicle and  traffic  law,
 as  added  by  chapter  501  of  the laws of 2023, is amended to read as
 follows:
   13. Where the county of Westchester has  established  a  demonstration
 program  imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-
 ure of an operator thereof to comply with  subdivision  (d)  of  section
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 eleven  hundred eleven of this chapter in accordance with section eleven
 hundred eleven-g of this chapter, any fine or  penalty  collected  by  a
 court, judge, magistrate or other officer for an imposition of liability
 which  occurs within a city, town or village within such county pursuant
 to such program shall be paid to the state comptroller within the  first
 ten days of the month following collection, except as otherwise provided
 in  subdivision three of section ninety-nine-a of the state finance law.
 Every such payment shall be accompanied by a statement in such form  and
 detail  as  the  comptroller  shall  provide.  The comptroller shall pay
 eighty percent of any such fine or penalty imposed for such liability to
 the county of Westchester, and twenty percent of any such fine or penal-
 ty to the city, town or village in which the violation  giving  rise  to
 the liability occurred, PROVIDED, HOWEVER THAT THE COMPTROLLER SHALL PAY
 ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF ANY SUCH FINE OR PENALTY IMPOSED FOR SUCH LIABIL-
 ITY  TO  THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER FOR VIOLATIONS WHICH OCCUR ON THE SAW
 MILL RIVER PARKWAY WITHIN THE VILLAGE  OF  PLEASANTVILLE.    All  fines,
 penalties  and  forfeitures  paid to a city, town or village pursuant to
 the provisions of this subdivision shall be credited to the general fund
 of such city,  town  or  village,  unless  a  different  disposition  is
 prescribed by charter, special law, local law or ordinance.
   §  3.  The county of Westchester and commissioner of the state depart-
 ment of transportation are hereby authorized and  empowered  to  install
 signage  that notifies drivers of the presence of traffic-control signal
 photo violation-monitoring devices in conformance with standards  estab-
 lished  in the manual on uniform traffic control devices. The county and
 such commissioner are additionally authorized and empowered to engage in
 a public information campaign before traffic-control signal photo viola-
 tion-monitoring devices go into effect on state roads to ensure  drivers
 have appropriate notice and understanding of the demonstration program.
   §  4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
 ments to sections 1111-g and 1803 of the vehicle and traffic law made by
 sections one and two of this act shall not affect  the  repeal  of  such
 provisions and shall be deemed repealed therewith.