File #: Int 0022-1998    Version: * Name: Traffic Control Signal Violations, Civil Liability
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 1/22/1998
Enactment date: 4/27/1998 Law number: 1998/020
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the civil liability of vehicle owners for traffic control signal violations and the expiration date of such program.
Sponsors: Noach Dear, (by request of the Mayor), Andrew S. Eristoff
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Attachments: 1. Local Law 20
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
4/28/1998*Noach Dear City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/27/1998*Noach Dear Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/27/1998*Noach Dear Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/8/1998*Noach Dear City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/8/1998*Noach Dear City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/7/1998*Noach Dear Committee on Transportation Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/7/1998*Noach Dear Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/23/1998*Noach Dear Committee on Transportation Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
3/23/1998*Noach Dear Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/12/1998*Noach Dear Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/22/1998*Noach Dear City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/22/1998*Noach Dear City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int No. 22
 
By Council Mmeber Dear (by the request of the Mayor); also Council Member Eristoff
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the civil liability of vehicle owners for traffic control signal violations and the expiration date of such program.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1.  Subdivision (a) of section 19-210 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 25 for the year 1994, is amended to read as follows:
      (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parking violations bureau is hereby authorized and empowered to establish a demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-control indications in accordance with the provisions of this section.  The department of transportation, for purposes of implementation of such program, shall be authorized to install and operate traffic-control signal violation-monitoring devices at no more than [twenty-five] fifty intersections at any one time.
      §2.  Section 2 of local law number 46 for the year 1989, as amended by local law number 98 for the year 1993, is amended to read as follows:
      §3.  This local law shall take effect immediately and shall expire on [December 1, 1996] December 1, 1999.
      §4.  This local law shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that section two of this local law shall be retroactive to and shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on December 1, 1996.
 
      Referred to the Committee on Transportation.