New York Assembly Bill A07249 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7249 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 16, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to making tech- nical corrections to the adjudication of certain traffic violations; and repealing certain provisions of such law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 of section 237 2 of the vehicle and traffic law are REPEALED and a new subdivision 10 is 3 added to read as follows: 4 10. (a) To adjudicate the liability of owners for violations of subdi- 5 vision (d) of section eleven hundred eleven of this chapter imposed 6 pursuant to a local law or ordinance imposing monetary liability on the 7 owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with 8 traffic-control indications through the installation and operation of 9 traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring systems, in accordance 10 with article twenty-four of this chapter; (b) to adjudicate the liabil- 11 ity of owners for violations of subdivision (b), (c), (d), (f) or (g) of 12 section eleven hundred eighty of this chapter imposed pursuant to a 13 demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a 14 vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with such posted 15 maximum speed limits through the installation and operation of photo 16 speed violation monitoring systems, in accordance with article thirty of 17 this chapter; (c) to adjudicate the liability of owners for violations 18 of bus lane restrictions as defined by article twenty-four of this chap- 19 ter imposed pursuant to a bus rapid transit program imposing monetary 20 liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof 21 to comply with such bus lane restrictions through the installation and 22 operation of bus lane photo devices, in accordance with article twenty- 23 four of this chapter; (d) to adjudicate the liability of owners for 24 violations of toll collection regulations imposed by certain public EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11395-01-3 
 A. 7249 2 1 authorities pursuant to the law authorizing such public authorities to 2 impose monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an 3 operator thereof to comply with toll collection regulations of such 4 public authorities through the installation and operation of photo-moni- 5 toring systems, in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-nine 6 hundred eighty-five of the public authorities law and sections 7 sixteen-a, sixteen-b and sixteen-c of chapter seven hundred seventy-four 8 of the laws of nineteen hundred fifty; (e) to adjudicate the liability 9 of owners for violations of section eleven hundred seventy-four of this 10 chapter when meeting a school bus marked and equipped as provided in 11 subdivisions twenty and twenty-one-c of section three hundred seventy- 12 five of this chapter imposed pursuant to a local law or ordinance impos- 13 ing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an oper- 14 ator thereof to comply with school bus red visual signals through the 15 installation and operation of school bus photo violation monitoring 16 systems, in accordance with article twenty-nine of this chapter; (f) to 17 adjudicate the liability of owners for violations of section three 18 hundred eighty-five of this chapter and the rules of the department of 19 transportation of the city of New York in relation to gross vehicle 20 weight and/or axle weight violations imposed pursuant to a weigh in 21 motion demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of 22 a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with such gross 23 vehicle weight and/or axle weight restrictions through the installation 24 and operation of weigh in motion violation monitoring systems, in 25 accordance with article ten of this chapter; (g) to adjudicate the 26 liability of owners for violations of subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) 27 of section eleven hundred eighty of this chapter imposed pursuant to a 28 demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a 29 vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with such posted 30 maximum speed limits within a highway construction or maintenance work 31 area through the installation and operation of photo speed violation 32 monitoring systems, in accordance with article thirty of this chapter; 33 and (h) to adjudicate the liability of owners for violations of bus 34 operation-related traffic regulations as defined by article twenty-four 35 of this chapter imposed pursuant to a demonstration program imposing 36 monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator 37 thereof to comply with such bus operation-related traffic regulations 38 through the installation and operation of bus operation-related photo 39 devices, in accordance with article twenty-four of this chapter. 40 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.