* § 1180-h. Owner liability for failure of operator to comply with\ncertain posted maximum speed limits; city of Schenectady. (a) 1.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of Schenectady is\nhereby authorized to establish a demonstration program imposing monetary\nliability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof\nto comply with posted maximum speed limits in a school speed zone within\nsuch city (i) when a school speed limit is in effect as provided in\nparagraphs one and two of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred\neighty of this article or (ii) when other speed limits are in effect as\nprovided in subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred\neighty of this article during the following times: (A) on school days\nduring school hours and one hour before and one hour after the school\nday, and (B) a period during student activities at the school and up to\nthirty minutes immediately before and up to thirty minutes immediately\nafter such student activities. Such demonstration program shall empower\nthe city of Schenectady to install photo speed violation monitoring\nsystems within no more than twenty school speed zones within such city\nat any one time and to operate such systems within such zones (iii) when\na school speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraphs one and two\nof subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or\n(iv) when other speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivision\n(b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article\nduring the following times: (A) on school days during school hours and\none hour before and one hour after the school day, and (B) a period\nduring student activities at the school and up to thirty minutes\nimmediately before and up to thirty minutes immediately after such\nstudent activities. In selecting a school speed zone in which to install\nand operate a photo speed violation monitoring system, the city shall\nconsider criteria including, but not limited to, the speed data, crash\nhistory, and the roadway geometry applicable to such school speed zone.\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 giving notice\nthat a photo speed violation monitoring system is in use to be mounted\non advance warning signs notifying motor vehicle operators of such\nupcoming school speed zone and/or on speed limit signs applicable within\nsuch school speed zone, in conformance with standards established in the\nMUTCD.\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 the operator operates that\n(i) states the date and time when, and the location where, the system\nwas set 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, videotape or other\nrecorded images 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
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