* § 1174-a. Owner liability for failure of operator to stop for a\nschool bus displaying a red visual signal and stop-arm. (a) 1.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law, a county, city, town or\nvillage located within a school district ("district") is hereby\nauthorized and empowered to adopt and amend a local law or ordinance\nestablishing a demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the\nowner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with\nsubdivision (a) of section eleven hundred seventy-four of this article\nwhen meeting a school bus marked and equipped as provided in\nsubdivisions twenty and twenty-one-c of section three hundred\nseventy-five of this chapter and operated in such county, city, town or\nvillage, in accordance with the provisions of this section. Such\ndemonstration program shall empower such county, city, town or village\nto install and operate school bus photo violation monitoring systems\nwhich may be stationary or mobile, and which may be installed, pursuant\nto an agreement with a school district within such county, city, town or\nvillage, on school buses owned and operated by such school district or\nprivately owned and operated for compensation under contract with such\ndistrict. Provided, however, that (a) no stationary school bus photo\nviolation monitoring system shall be installed or operated by a county,\ncity, town or village except on roadways under the jurisdiction of such\ncounty, city, town or village, and (b) no mobile school bus photo\nviolation monitoring system shall be installed or operated on any such\nschool buses unless such county, city, town or village and such district\nenter into an agreement for such installation and operation.\n 1-a. Any county, city, town or village, located within a school\ndistrict, that has adopted a local law or ordinance pursuant to this\nsection establishing a demonstration program imposing liability on the\nowner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with\nsubdivision (a) of section eleven hundred seventy-four of this article\nwhen meeting a school bus marked and equipped as provided in\nsubdivisions twenty and twenty-one-c of section three hundred\nseventy-five of this chapter and operated in such county, city, town or\nvillage may enter into an agreement with the applicable school district\nfor the installation, maintenance and use of school bus photo violation\nmonitoring systems on school buses pursuant to this section and section\ntwenty-two of the chapter of the laws of two thousand nineteen which\nadded this section, for the proper handling and custody of photographs,\nmicrophotographs, videotapes, other recorded images and data produced by\nsuch systems, and for the forwarding of such photographs,\nmicrophotographs, videotapes, other recorded images and data to the\napplicable county, city, town or village. Any agreement entered into\nhereunder shall be approved by each participating county, city, town or\nvillage by a majority vote of the voting strength of its governing body\nand by resolution of the district pursuant to section sixteen hundred\nfour, section seventeen hundred nine, section twenty-five hundred three,\nsection twenty-five hundred fifty-four or section twenty-five hundred\nninety-h of the education law, as applicable. Provided, however, that\nwhere a district has entered an agreement as provided hereunder with a\ncounty, no cities, towns or villages within the same county may enter\ninto, or be a party to, any agreement with such district pursuant to\nthis section. Provided further, however, that no county shall enter an\nagreement with any city school district wholly contained within a city.\nNothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a county, city,\ntown, village or district at any time to withdraw from or terminate an\nagreement entered pursuant to this section and section twenty-two of\nchapter one hundred forty-five of the laws of two thousand nineteen\nwhich ‹ Prev All New York sections Next ›
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