File #: SLR 0003-2009    Version: * Name: Monetary liability for failure to comply with traffic signals (photo violations), S.3750/A.7328.
Type: SLR Status: Adopted
Committee: Committee on State and Federal Legislation
On agenda: 4/2/2009
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: State Legislation Resolution requesting the New York State Legislature to pass bills introduced by Senators Dilan and Stavisky, S. 3750, and Assembly Member Silver, A.7328 , “AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to certain traffic-control indications; to amend chapter 746 of the laws of 1988 amending the vehicle and traffic law, the general municipal law and the public officers law, relating to the civil liability of vehicle owners for traffic control signal violations, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof; and to amend local law number 46 of the city of New York for the year 1989 amending the administrative code of the city of New York relating to civil liability of vehicle owners for traffic control signal violations, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof”.
Sponsors: Maria Baez, Gale A. Brewer, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., John C. Liu, David I. Weprin
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Press Release, 3. Hearing Testimony, 4. Hearing Transcript, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4/2/09, 6. Fiscal Impact Statement, 7. State & Assembly Bills

State Legislation Resolution No. 3

 

State Legislation Resolution requesting the New York State Legislature to pass bills introduced by Senators Dilan and Stavisky, S. 3750, and Assembly Member Silver, A.7328 , “AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to certain traffic-control indications; to amend chapter 746 of the laws of 1988 amending the vehicle and traffic law, the general municipal law and the public officers law, relating to the civil liability of vehicle owners for traffic control signal violations, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof; and to amend local law number 46 of the city of New York for the year 1989 amending the administrative code of the city of New York relating to civil liability of vehicle owners for traffic control signal violations, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof”.

 

By Council Members Baez, Brewer, Comrie, Liu and Weprin

 

                     Whereas, bills have been introduced in the New York State Legislature by Senators Dilan and Stavisky, S. 3750, and Assembly Member Silver, A. 7328, “AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to certain traffic-control indications; to amend chapter 746 of the laws of 1988 amending the vehicle and traffic law, the general municipal law and the public officers law, relating to the civil liability of vehicle owners for traffic control signal violations, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof; and to amend local law number 46 of the city of New York for the year 1989 amending the administrative code of the city of New York relating to civil liability of vehicle owners for traffic control signal violations, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof ”; and

                                                                  

Whereas, the enactment of the above State Legislation requires the concurrence of the Council of the City of New York as the local legislative body; now, therefore, be it

 

                     Resolved, that the Council of the City of New York, in accordance with the provisions of Section 2 of Article 9 of the Constitution of the State of New York, does hereby request the New York State Legislature to enact into law the aforesaid pending bills.

 

                     Referred to the Committee on State and Federal Legislation.