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History
- Recommit, enacting clause stricken
- Referred to transportation
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to transportation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 58–4
- Home rule request
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.377
- Referred to transportation
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S4197
Title of bill
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing the county of Suffolk to install and operate traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices at up to one hundred intersections
Purpose
This legislation seeks to prevent the deaths and injuries caused by motorists running red lights by expanding Suffolk County's existing demonstration program by increasing the number of intersections authorized to install traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices from fifty to one hundred.
Summary of provisions
Section one of the bill amends Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1111-b(a)(1) to increase the number of intersections in Suffolk County at which traffic-control signal photo violation monitoring devices may be installed. Section two of the bill provides the effective date.
Existing law
Suffolk County's traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring demonstration program is currently limited to 50 intersections.
Justification
Red light running accidents are often the worst type of accident; they tend to involve speed and "right-angle" impacts, which lead to a large number of bodily injuries and death to motorists, passengers, pedestrians and bicyclists. The extended use of photo violation monitoring devices has been shown to dramatically reduce the number of red light violations at the intersections being monitored. By reducing the number of vehicles running red lights, the likelihood of right angle and pedestrian accidents is reduced.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately, with provisions.
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