Relates to owner liability for failure of an operator to comply with street cleaning parking rules

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◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Robert Jackson says this is needed

Maintaining street cleanliness and litter control in New York City are important quality-of-life concerns for property owners, businesses and the New York City Department of Sanitation. Street cleaning parking rules ensure that there is open and unhindered curbside accessibility to Department workers who operate street cleaning vehicles, also known as mechanical brooms, to clean over 6,000 curb miles of the City's streets in the boroughs of Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens that are covered by such street cleaning rules. The Department schedules an average of 200 mechanical brooms per weekday to sweep the City's streets. These vehicles are equipped with heavy duty brushes or "brooms" that loosen street debris and contain a mechanism to spray the street with water for reducing air pollutants on the street. Any decrease or loss of a substantial portion of the Department's cleaning capability as a result of vehicles parked in violation of alternate side parking restrictions greatly affect community cleanliness. The purpose of this legislation is to develop a system which will supplement the current enforcement effort by using technology to record parking violations on film or other recording devices. The program will operate in the same manner as the Red Light Camera Program and Bus Lane Program, which has successfully reduced the incidence of red light and bus lane violations in the City. Technology presently exists that will capture vehicles parked unlawfully without the presence of a police or uniformed sanitation enforcement officer. A photo device would be placed on a street cleaning vehicle and would capture or record, and produce by photographic, microphotographic, videotape or other recording system an image of a motor vehicle that is parked unlawfully in violation of street cleaning parking rules posted on traffic signs. This image can then be used as evidence in a proceed- ing before the New York City Parking Violations Bureau to impose liabil- ity on the owner of the vehicle for the parking violation. The enactment of this legislation, which is modeled after the enabling legislation that authorized the Red Light Camera Program and Bus Lane Program, will enable the City to continue to explore the use of new technology as a means of improving the quality of life in the City, and promoting a positive and clean image for New York City.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.