S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8351
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 15, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including the unlicensed
operation of a motor vehicle within the crime of vehicular manslaught-
er in the second degree
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 125.12 of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 732 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
follows:
(1) operates a motor vehicle in violation of subdivision two, three,
four or four-a of section eleven hundred ninety-two of the vehicle and
traffic law or OPERATES A MOTOR VEHICLE IN VIOLATION OF SECTION FIVE
HUNDRED ELEVEN OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW OR operates a vessel or
public vessel in violation of paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (e) of subdivi-
sion two of section forty-nine-a of the navigation law, and as a result
of such intoxication or impairment by the use of a drug, or by the
combined influence of drugs or of alcohol and any drug or drugs, oper-
ates such motor vehicle, vessel or public vessel in a manner that causes
the death of such other person, or
S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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