New York S 7194: Relates to owner liability for failure of an operator to comply with stop signs in the village of Round Lake, county of Saratoga

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S07194 Summary:

BILL NOS07194 

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SAME ASSAME AS A07608

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SPONSORTEDISCO

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §1172-a, V & T L; amd §87, Pub Off L

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Authorizes the village of Round Lake, county of Saratoga to establish a demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to stop for a stop sign in such village.

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BILL NOS07194 

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04/03/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7194

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 3, 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 and the public officers law,
 in relation to owner liability for failure of an operator to comply
 with stop signs in the village of Round Lake, county of Saratoga; and
 providing for the repeal of such 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 1172-a to read as follows:
 3 § 1172-a. Owner liability for failure of operator to stop for a stop
 4 sign. (a) 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the village of
 5 Round Lake, county of Saratoga, is hereby authorized and empowered to
 6 adopt and amend a local law or ordinance establishing a demonstration
 7 program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-
 8 ure of an operator thereof to stop for a stop sign in such village in
 9 accordance with the provisions of this section. Such demonstration
 10 program shall empower such village to install and operate stop sign
 11 photo violation monitoring devices at no more than five intersections
 12 within and under the jurisdiction of such village at any one time;
 13 provided, however, that where one of the two highways joining one anoth-
 14 er at such intersection is a state highway maintained by the state, such
 15 village may install and operate such stop sign photo violation monitor-
 16 ing device in a manner affecting traffic proceeding along such state
 17 highway at such intersection if it has obtained approval in writing from
 18 the department of transportation, and the department of transportation
 19 may at any time rescind or modify such approval.
 20 2. Such demonstration program shall utilize necessary technologies to
 21 ensure, to the extent practicable, that photographs produced by such
 22 stop sign photo violation monitoring devices shall not include images
 23 that identify the driver, the passengers, or the contents of the vehi-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11162-02-5

 S. 7194 2

 1 cle. Provided, however, that no notice of liability issued pursuant to
 2 this section shall be dismissed solely because a photograph or photo-
 3 graphs allow for the identification of the contents of a vehicle,
 4 provided that such village has made a reasonable effort to comply with
 5 the provisions of this paragraph.
 6 (b) In any such village which has adopted a local law or ordinance
 7 pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section, the owner of a vehicle
 8 shall be liable for a penalty imposed pursuant to this section if such
 9 vehicle was used or operated with the permission of the owner, express
 10 or implied, in violation of subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred
 11 seventy-two of this article, and such violation is evidenced by informa-
 12 tion obtained from a stop sign photo violation monitoring device;
 13 provided however that no owner of a vehicle shall be liable for a penal-
 14 ty imposed pursuant to this section where the operator of such vehicle
 15 has been convicted of the underlying violation of subdivision (a) of
 16 section eleven hundred seventy-two of this article.
 17 (c) For purposes of this section, "owner" shall have the meaning