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A2516Assembly2017-2018 Session

Stop Ticket Trap Signals

Official title

“Relates to traffic control signals”

Sponsor Jeffrey DinowitzAD-81Affects Legal
Status
In Assembly Committee
Codes
Impact
3/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Codes

What's happening

This bill allows drivers to use as a defense that a traffic signal was manipulated by an officer to issue a ticket.

Why it matters

  1. Protects drivers from unfair prosecution. by allowing them to argue that a ticket is invalid if the traffic signal was intentionally manipulated by law enforcement or other authorized personnel with the purpose of issuing a ticket.

  2. Creates a check on police conduct. by making it riskier and less effective for officers to manipulate traffic signals for the purpose of generating citations, potentially deterring such practices.

  3. Could increase transparency and accountability. in traffic enforcement by requiring courts to consider claims of signal manipulation, making it easier for drivers to challenge questionable tickets.

  4. Might impact how traffic violations are enforced and contested. drivers and their attorneys would have a new legal tool to fight tickets, which could lead to more scrutiny of how traffic signals are managed and how tickets are issued.

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Stop Ticket Trap Signals

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Jeffrey Dinowitz

Assembly Member · Assembly District 81

Chair, Codes

History

  1. Referred to codes
  2. Reported referred to rules
  3. Reported referred to codes
  4. Referred to transportation

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

2516

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 20, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, HOOPER, ORTIZ, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to manipulation of traffic control signals

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1110 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 259 of the laws of 1964, is amended to read as follows:

(a) Every person shall obey the instructions of any official trafficcontrol device applicable to him placed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, unless otherwise directed by a traffic or police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this title. It shall be an affirmative defense to any charge of failing to obey a traffic control signal pursuant to section eleven hundred eleven of this article that a police officer, peace officer, or other person authorized to issue a summons or appearance ticket, manipulated such traffic control signal with the purpose of assessing a ticket against an individual.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to violations occurring on and after such date.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD03567-01-7

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