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A04545 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4545
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 16, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation
 
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          that  in  communities  that  include traffic-control devices outfitted
          with photo monitoring  instruments,  amber  or  yellow  signal  lights
          located  on  any  traffic-control  device in such community shall have
          uniform duration periods
 
          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 1111-g to read as follows:
     3    § 1111-g. Duration of yellow or amber signals located  in  communities
     4  with  traffic-control  devices  outfitted  with photo monitoring. (a) In
     5  communities that include traffic-control devices  outfitted  with  photo
     6  monitoring instruments:
     7    1.  there  shall be displayed a steady circular yellow or amber signal
     8  warning traffic that any movement related to a  green  signal  is  being
     9  terminated and that a red signal will be exhibited immediately thereaft-
    10  er; and
    11    2.  all  yellow or amber signals located on any traffic-control device
    12  in such community shall have uniform duration periods.
    13    (b) As used in this section, "photo monitoring instrument" shall  mean
    14  cameras  which  provide photographs, videotapes or other recorded images
    15  and which are built into a traffic-control device's red signal light.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09555-01-3
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