New York S 5676: Relates to adjudications and owner liability for a violation of traffic-control signal indications in the city of Schenectady

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S05676 Summary:

BILL NOS05676 

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SAME ASSAME AS A07690

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SPONSORTEDISCO

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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 Schenectady.

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02/27/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5676

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 27, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

 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 Schenectady; 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 Schenectady. (a) 1. Notwithstand-
 5 ing any other provision of law, the city of Schenectady is hereby
 6 authorized and empowered to adopt and amend a local law or ordinance
 7 establishing a demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the
 8 owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with
 9 traffic-control indications in such city in accordance with the
 10 provisions of this section. Such demonstration program shall empower
 11 such city to install and operate traffic-control signal photo viola-
 12 tion-monitoring devices at no more than twelve intersections within such
 13 city at any one time.
 14 2. Such demonstration program shall utilize necessary technologies to
 15 ensure, to the extent practicable, that photographs produced by such
 16 traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring systems shall not
 17 include images that identify the driver, the passengers, or the contents
 18 of the vehicle. Provided, however, that no notice of liability issued
 19 pursuant to this section shall be dismissed solely because a photograph
 20 or photographs allow for the identification of the contents of a vehi-
 21 cle, provided that such city has made a reasonable effort to comply with
 22 the provisions of this paragraph.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00361-01-5

 S. 5676 2

 1 (b) In any such city which has adopted a local law or ordinance pursu-
 2 ant to subdivision (a) of this section, the owner of a vehicle shall be
 3 liable for a penalty imposed pursuant to this section if such vehicle
 4 was used or operated with the permission of the owner, express or
 5 implied, in violation of subdivision (d) of section eleven hundred elev-
 6 en of this article, and such violation is evidenced by information
 7 obtained from a traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring
 8 system; provided however that no owner of a vehicle shall be liable for
 9 a penalty imposed pursuant to this section where the operator of such
 10 vehicle has been convicted of the underlying violation of subdivision
 11 (d) of section eleven hundred eleven of this article.
 12 (c) For purposes of this section, "owner" shall have the meaning as
 13 provided in article two-B of this chapter. For purposes of this section,
 14 "traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring system" shall mean a
 15 vehicle sensor installed to work in conjunction with a traffic-control
 16 signal which automatically produces two or more photographs, two or more
 17 microphotographs, a videotape or other recorded images of each vehicle
 18 at the time it is used or operated in violation of subdivision (d) of
 19 section eleven hundred eleven of this article.
 20 (d) A certificate, sw