* § 1180-b. Owner liability for failure of operator to comply with\ncertain posted maximum speed limits. (a) 1. Notwithstanding any other\nprovision of law, the city of New York is hereby authorized to establish\na demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a\nvehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with posted maximum\nspeed limits in a school speed zone within such city when a school speed\nlimit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and two of subdivision\n(c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or when other speed\nlimits are in effect as provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of\nsection eleven hundred eighty of this article. Such demonstration\nprogram shall empower the city of New York to install photo speed\nviolation monitoring systems within no more than seven hundred fifty\nschool speed zones within such city at any one time and to operate such\nsystems within such zones when a school speed limit is in effect as\nprovided in paragraphs one and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven\nhundred eighty of this article or when other speed limits are in effect\nas provided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven\nhundred eighty of this article. In selecting a school speed zone in\nwhich to install and operate a photo speed violation monitoring system,\nthe city of New York shall consider criteria including, but not limited\nto, the speed data, crash history, and the roadway geometry applicable\nto such school speed zone. Such city shall prioritize the placement of\nphoto speed violation monitoring systems in school speed zones based\nupon speed data or the crash history of a school speed zone. A photo\nspeed violation monitoring system shall not be installed or operated on\na controlled-access highway exit ramp or within three hundred feet along\na highway that continues from the end of a controlled-access highway\nexit ramp.\n 2. No photo speed violation monitoring system shall be used in a\nschool speed zone unless (i) on the day it is to be used it has\nsuccessfully passed a self-test of its functions; and (ii) it has\nundergone an annual calibration check performed pursuant to paragraph\nfour of this subdivision. The city shall install signs bearing the words\n"photo enforced" below speed limit signs giving written notice to\napproaching motor vehicle operators that a photo speed violation\nmonitoring system is in use, in conformance with standards established\nin the MUTCD, and shall modify existing signage to reflect such written\nnotice in the regular course of maintenance.\n 3. Operators of photo speed violation monitoring systems shall have\ncompleted training in the procedures for setting up, testing, and\noperating such systems. Each such operator shall complete and sign a\ndaily set-up log for each such system that he or she operates that (i)\nstates the date and time when, and the location where, the system was\nset up that day, and (ii) states that such operator successfully\nperformed, and the system passed, the self-tests of such system before\nproducing a recorded image that day. The city shall retain each such\ndaily log until the later of the date on which the photo speed violation\nmonitoring system to which it applies has been permanently removed from\nuse or the final resolution of all cases involving notices of liability\nissued based on photographs, microphotographs, video or other recorded\nimages produced by such system.\n 4. Each photo speed violation monitoring system shall undergo an\nannual calibration check performed by an independent calibration\nlaboratory which shall issue a signed certificate of calibration. The\ncity shall keep each such annual certificate of calibration on file\nuntil the final resolution of all cases involving a notice of liability\nissued during such year which were based on photographs,\nmicrophotographs, videotape or other recorded images produced by such\nphoto speed violation monitoring
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