New York S 6715: Relates to owner liability for failure of operator to stop at a stop sign or yield for a pedestrian as required by law in the counties of Monroe and Onondaga

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S06715 Summary:

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Amd §1174-b, V & T L; amd §87, Pub Off L

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Relates to owner liability for failure of operator to stop at a stop sign or yield for a pedestrian as required by law in any municipality in the counties of Monroe and Onondaga; provides that such demonstration program shall empower such municipality to install and operate stop sign and pedestrian crossing photo violation monitoring systems which may be stationary or mobile, and which may be installed within the boundaries of such municipality; makes related provisions.

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03/20/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6715

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- 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 operator to stop at a
 stop sign or yield for a pedestrian as required by law in the counties
 of Monroe and Onondaga; 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 1174-b to read as follows:
 3 § 1174-b. Owner liability for failure of operator to stop at a stop
 4 sign or yield for a pedestrian as required by law in the county of
 5 Monroe and the county of Onondaga. (a) Notwithstanding any other
 6 provision of law, any municipality within the county of Monroe or the
 7 county of Onondaga (a "county") is hereby authorized and empowered to
 8 adopt and amend a local law or ordinance establishing a demonstration
 9 program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for fail-
 10 ure of an operator thereof to comply with subdivision (a) of section
 11 eleven hundred seventy-two, section eleven hundred forty-two, or section
 12 eleven hundred fifty-one of this article. Such demonstration program
 13 shall empower such municipality to install and operate stop sign and
 14 pedestrian crossing photo violation monitoring systems which may be
 15 stationary or mobile, and which may be installed within the boundaries
 16 of such municipality.
 17 (b) Such demonstration program shall utilize necessary technologies to
 18 ensure, to the extent practicable, that photographs produced by such
 19 photo violation monitoring systems shall not include images that identi-
 20 fy the driver, the passengers, or the contents of the vehicle. Provided,
 21 however, that no notice of liability issued pursuant to this section
 22 shall be dismissed solely because a photograph or photographs allow for

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11068-01-5

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