File #: Int 0712-2022    Version: Name: Reporting on motor vehicles with license plates that are unreadable by photo violation monitoring systems.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 9/29/2022
Enactment date: 11/19/2023 Law number: 2023/155
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on motor vehicles with license plates that are unreadable by photo violation monitoring systems
Sponsors: Erik D. Bottcher, Gale A. Brewer, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Sandra Ung, Rita C. Joseph, Shaun Abreu, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Alexa Avilés, Carlina Rivera , Christopher Marte, Marjorie Velázquez, Mercedes Narcisse, Linda Lee, Eric Dinowitz
Council Member Sponsors: 15
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to report on motor vehicles with license plates that are unreadable by red light cameras or school speed cameras. An unreadable license plate would be defined as a license plate that a photo-violation monitoring system does not read because the camera malfunctioned, the license plate’s number was concealed or obscured, the license plate produced a distorted recorded or photographic image, or if no license plate was affixed to the motor vehicle. This bill would require DOT to post the report on its website and submit those reports to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council each quarter. The report would include information on the days and times of day when the license plates could not be read, the community districts where they could not be read, and the reason the license plate could not be read.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 712-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 712, 3. Int. No. 712, 4. September 29, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-29-22, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 29, 2022, 7. Committee Report 4/24/23, 8. Hearing Testimony 4/24/23, 9. Hearing Transcript 4/24/23, 10. Proposed Int. No. 712-A - 10/16/23, 11. Committee Report 10/19/23, 12. Hearing Transcript 10/19/23, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. October 19, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-19-23, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 19, 2023, 17. Int. No. 712-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Local Law 155, 20. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor
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11/21/2023AErik D. Bottcher City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/19/2023AErik D. Bottcher Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
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10/19/2023*Erik D. Bottcher Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/19/2023*Erik D. Bottcher Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
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4/24/2023*Erik D. Bottcher Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/24/2023*Erik D. Bottcher Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/29/2022*Erik D. Bottcher City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Int. No. 712-A

 

By Council Members Bottcher, Brewer, Restler, Hudson, Ung, Joseph, Abreu, Brooks-Powers, Avilés, Rivera, Marte, Velázquez, Narcisse, Lee and Dinowitz

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on motor vehicles with license plates that are unreadable by photo violation monitoring systems

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

            Section 1. Subchapter 3 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-198.1 to read as follows:

§ 19-198.1 Reporting on unreadable license plates. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “unreadable license plate” means a license plate that a photo violation monitoring system authorized by section 1111-a or 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law could not read because (i) such system was malfunctioning at the time, (ii) such license plate’s number was concealed or obscured from such system, (iii) such license plate produced a distorted recorded or photographic image on such system, or (iv) no license plate was affixed to a motor vehicle.

b. Reporting. Beginning no later than April 30, 2024, and quarterly thereafter, the commissioner shall send a report on unreadable license plates to the mayor and the speaker of the council and post such report on the department’s website. Such report shall include, but need not be limited to, monthly aggregate data on unreadable license plates during the previous quarter and provide the following information about such license plates:

1. The days and times of day when such license plates could not be read;

2. The community districts where such license plates could not be read;

3. The boroughs where such license plates could not be read; and

4. A breakdown by type of unreadable license plates.

c. Data dictionary. The report required by this section shall include a data dictionary.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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