New York S 4321: Enacts the "protect our pedestrians (POP) act"

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S04321 Summary:

BILL NOS04321 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04710

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SPONSORMARTINS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §1174-b, V & T L

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Permits the villages of Upper Brookville, Flower Hill, East Hampton, Westbury, Saddle Rock and Southampton located in Nassau and Suffolk county to adopt local laws to implement a demonstration program imposing monetary liability not to exceed fifty dollars on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator to comply with stop signs; permits such villages to install and operate stop sign photo violation monitoring systems as part of such demonstration program.

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BILL NOS04321 

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02/04/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

04/28/2025RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4321

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- 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 owner
 liability for failure of an operator to comply with stop signs in
 designated villages located within the counties of Nassau and Suffolk

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

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "protect
 2 our pedestrians (POP) act".
 3 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
 4 1174-b to read as follows:
 5 § 1174-b. Owner liability for failure of operator to stop for a stop
 6 sign in the village of Upper Brookville, the village of Flower Hill, the
 7 village of East Hampton, the village of Westbury, the village of Saddle
 8 Rock or the village of Southampton (each, a "village"). (a) Notwith-
 9 standing any other provision of law, any village located within the
 10 county of Nassau or the county of Suffolk is hereby authorized and
 11 empowered to adopt and amend a local law or ordinance establishing a
 12 demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a
 13 vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with subdivision
 14 (a) of section eleven hundred seventy-two of this article. Such demon-
 15 stration program shall empower such village to install and operate stop
 16 sign photo violation monitoring systems which may be stationary or
 17 mobile, and which may be installed on stop signs within the boundaries
 18 of such village.
 19 (b) Such demonstration program shall utilize necessary technologies to
 20 ensure, to the extent practicable, that photographs produced by such
 21 stop sign photo violation monitoring systems shall not include images
 22 that identify the driver, the passengers, or the contents of the vehi-
 23 cle. Provided, however, that no notice of liability issued pursuant to
 24 this section shall be dismissed solely because a photograph or photo-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08504-01-5

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 1 graphs allow for the identification of the driver, passengers, or the
 2 contents of a vehicle, provided that such village has made a reasonable
 3 effort to comply with the provisions of this paragraph.
 4 (c) In any such village which has adopted a local law or ordinance
 5 pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section, the owner of a vehicle
 6 shall be liable for a penalty imposed pursuant to this section if such
 7 vehicle was used or operated with the permission of the owner, express
 8 or implied, in violation of subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred
 9 seventy-two of this article, and such violation is evidenced by informa-
 10 tion obtained from a stop sign photo violation monitoring system.
 11 (d) For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the
 12 following meanings:
 13 1. "Owner" shall have the meaning as defined pursuant to section two
 14 hundred thirty-nine of this chapter.
 15 2. "Village" shall mean the village of Flower Hill, the village of
 16 Upper Br