What's happening
This bill authorizes New York City to install photo speed violation monitoring systems in all school speed zones and removes the program's expiration date.
Why it matters
Extends the reach of speed cameras. The bill removes previous caps (of 20 or 140 zones) and allows New York City to install speed cameras in every school speed zone, significantly expanding automated enforcement citywide and potentially impacting a large number of drivers.
Removes requirements for data-driven selection. The bill eliminates the mandate that camera placement be based on factors like speed data, crash history, or roadway geometry, giving the city greater discretion over where cameras are installed, which may raise questions about fairness or focus.
Makes the program permanent. By eliminating the program’s expiration and repeal provisions, the bill establishes school-zone speed enforcement by camera as a permanent feature of New York City’s traffic safety strategy, not subject to periodic legislative review.
Potential impacts on safety and revenue. The expanded and permanent program could lead to greater compliance with speed limits near schools, thereby improving pedestrian safety (especially for children), but it may also increase the number of automated tickets issued, affecting drivers’ finances and city revenue.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6453
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing the city of New York to install photo speed violation monitoring systems in every school speed zone in such city; and to amend chapter
189 of the laws of 2013 amending the vehicle and traffic law and the public officers law relating to establishing in a city with a population of one million or more a demonstration program implementing speed violation monitoring systems in school speed zones by means of photo devices, in relation to eliminating the expiration and repeal of the provisions thereof
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 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 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] all school speed zones within the city [at
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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.]
§ 2. 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] all 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. The opening paragraph of section 15 of chapter 189 of the laws of 2013 amending the vehicle and traffic law and the public officers law relating to establishing in a city with a population of one million or more a demonstration program implementing speed violation monitoring systems in school speed zones by means of photo devices is amended to read as follows:
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law [and shall expire 5 years after such effective date when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed repealed]; [and] provided [further] that any rules necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date shall be promulgated on or before such effective date, provided further that:
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§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately, except that section one of this act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law; provided that the amendments to paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law, made by section one 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 two of this act shall take effect.
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