The legislation, still before the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Financial Services, would require banks, convenience stores, and small grocers to improve lighting around automated teller machines, include an emergency call option on cash dispensers, and limit parking around ATMs. But banking industry officials say such measures are expensive and unproven, and would probably not have prevented last summer’s tragedy.
Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2014 07:00:00 +0000