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This bill removes limits on the number of red light and speed cameras that can be installed in New York City.
Why it matters
Expanding the use of red light and speed cameras can significantly increase automated traffic enforcement throughout New York City. , which could change driver behavior, potentially resulting in fewer traffic violations, crashes, and injuries—especially in high-risk areas.
By removing the cap on cameras in school speed zones, the city could better protect children and pedestrians near schools. , as more locations would be eligible for camera coverage based on data like crash history and roadway conditions.
The change shifts more control over traffic safety infrastructure to local authorities. , allowing New York City to strategically deploy cameras where they are most needed, rather than being restricted by arbitrary limits, which could lead to more data-driven, targeted safety interventions.
The increased presence of cameras may raise privacy and equity concerns. , as well as the potential for more citations and fines, disproportionately affecting certain neighborhoods or demographics—issues likely to be debated as camera installations expand.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
10555
IN ASSEMBLY
May 4, 2018
Introduced by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the number of traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices and photo speed violation monitoring systems authorized to be installed and operating within the city of New York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1111-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each city with a population of one million or more is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend a local law or ordinance establishing a demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in such city in accordance with the provisions of this section. Such demonstration program shall empower a city to install and operate trafficcontrol signal photo violation-monitoring devices [at no more than one hundred fifty intersections] within such city [at any one time].
§ 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 43 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York 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 school speed zone within the city (i) when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or (ii) when other speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article during the following times: (A) on school days during school hours and one hour before and one hour after the school
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day, and (B) a period during student activities at the school and up to thirty minutes immediately before and up to thirty minutes immediately after such student activities. Such demonstration program shall empower the city to install photo speed violation monitoring systems within [no more than one hundred forty] school speed zones within the city [at any one time] and to operate such systems within such zones (iii) when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or (iv) when other speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article during the following times: (A) on school days during school hours and one hour before and one hour after the school day, and (B) a period during student activities at the school and up to thirty minutes immediately before and up to thirty minutes immediately after such student activities. In selecting a school speed zone in which to install and operate a photo speed violation monitoring system, the city shall consider criteria including, but not limited to the speed data, crash history, and the roadway geometry applicable to such school speed zone.
§ 3. Paragraph 1 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:
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York 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 school speed zone within the city (i) when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or (ii) when other speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article during the following times: (A) on school days during school hours and one hour before and one hour after the school day, and (B) a period during student activities at the school and up to thirty minutes immediately before and up to thirty minutes immediately after such student activities. Such demonstration program shall empower the city to install photo speed violation monitoring systems within [no more than twenty school speed zones within] the city [at any one time] and to operate such systems within such zones (iii) when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or (iv) when other speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article during the following times: (A) on school days during school hours and one hour before and one hour after the school day, and (B) a period during student activities at the school and up to thirty minutes immediately before and up to thirty minutes immediately after such student activities. In selecting a school speed zone in which to install and operate a photo speed violation monitoring system, the city shall consider criteria including, but not limited to the speed data, crash history, and the roadway geometry applicable to such school speed zone.
§ 4. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 19-210 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parking violations bureau is hereby authorized and empowered to establish a demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in
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accordance with the provisions of this section. The department of transportation, for purposes of implementation of such program, shall be authorized to install and operate traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices [at no more than one hundred fifty intersections at any one time] within the city.
§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that the amendments to section 1111-a of the vehicle and traffic law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith; provided further, however that the amendments to paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law made by section two of this act shall not affect the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section 12 of chapter 43 of the laws of 2014, as amended, when upon such date section three of this act shall take effect; provided further, however, that the amendments to section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law made by sections two and three of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith; and provided further, however, that the amendments to section 19-210 of the administrative code of the city of New York made by section four of this act shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
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