New York S 7500: Relates to adjudications and owner liability for a violation of traffic-control signal indications in the city of Peekskill

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S07500 Summary:

BILL NOS07500A

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SAME ASSAME AS A08227-A

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SPONSORHARCKHAM

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add 1111-i, V & T L; amd 87, Pub Off L

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Relates to adjudications and owner liability for a violation of traffic-control signal indications in the city of Peekskill.

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BILL NOS07500A

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04/21/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

05/21/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

05/21/2025PRINT NUMBER 7500A

06/11/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/11/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1831

06/11/2025SUBSTITUTED BY A8227A

&nbspA08227 AMEND=A Levenberg

&nbsp05/05/2025referred to transportation

&nbsp05/21/2025amend and recommit to transportation

&nbsp05/21/2025print number 8227a

&nbsp06/08/2025reference changed to ways and means

&nbsp06/09/2025reported referred to rules

&nbsp06/10/2025reported 

&nbsp06/10/2025rules report cal.584

&nbsp06/10/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.584

&nbsp06/10/2025home rule request

&nbsp06/10/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/10/2025delivered to senate

&nbsp06/10/2025REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp06/11/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S7500A

&nbsp06/11/20253RD READING CAL.1831

&nbsp06/11/2025HOME RULE REQUEST

&nbsp06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/11/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp10/24/2025delivered to governor

&nbsp10/27/2025signed chap.481

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7500--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- commit-
 tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
 mitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to adjudi-
 cations and owner liability for a violation of traffic-control signal
 indications in the city of Peekskill; to amend the public officers
 law, in relation to accessing records; and providing for the repeal of
 certain provisions upon expiration thereof

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

 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 1111-i to read as follows:
 3 § 1111-i. Owner liability for failure of operator to comply with
 4 traffic-control indications; city of Peekskill. (a) 1. Notwithstanding
 5 any other provision of law, the city of Peekskill is hereby authorized
 6 and empowered to adopt and amend a local law or ordinance establishing a
 7 demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a
 8 vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-con-
 9 trol indications in such city in accordance with the provisions of this
 10 section. Such demonstration program shall empower such city to install
 11 and operate traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring devices at
 12 no more than nine intersections within such city at any one time.
 13 2. Such demonstration program shall utilize necessary technologies to
 14 ensure, to the extent practicable, that photographs produced by such
 15 traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring systems shall not
 16 include images that identify the driver, the passengers, or the contents
 17 of the vehicle. Provided, however, that no notice of liability issued
 18 pursuant to this section shall be dismissed solely because a photograph
 19 or photographs allow for the identification of the contents of a vehi-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11701-04-5

 S. 7500--A 2

 1 cle, provided that such city has made a reasonable effort to comply with
 2 the provisions of this paragraph.
 3 (b) In any such city which has adopted a local law or ordinance pursu-
 4 ant to subdivision (a) of this section, the owner of a vehicle shall be
 5 liable for a penalty imposed pursuant to this section if such vehicle
 6 was used or operated with the permission of the owner, express or
 7 implied, in violation of subdivis