Senate Bill S775

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Establishes the crime of unlawful failure to obey a police officer while operating a motor vehicle

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S775 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3071
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §270.40, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A6127

2009-S775 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of unlawful failure to obey a police officer while operating a motor vehicle; provides that a person is guilty of such crime when he or she, when having been directed to stop the vehicle by either a uniformed police officer or a marked police vehicle by the activation of either the lights or the lights and the siren of such vehicle, such person thereafter fails to stop the vehicle in the amount of time it takes to safely stop the vehicle at the side of the road; makes such crime a class B misdemeanor.

2009-S775 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S775 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   775

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 15, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ALESI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
  unlawful  failure  to  obey  a  police officer while operating a motor
  vehicle

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 270.40 to
read as follows:
S 270.40 UNLAWFUL FAILURE TO OBEY A POLICE  OFFICER  WHILE  OPERATING  A
           MOTOR VEHICLE.
  A  PERSON IS GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL FAILURE TO OBEY A POLICE OFFICER WHILE
OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE WHEN HE OR SHE IS OPERATING  A  MOTOR  VEHICLE
AND,  HAVING  BEEN  DIRECTED  TO  STOP THE VEHICLE BY EITHER A UNIFORMED
POLICE OFFICER OR A MARKED POLICE VEHICLE BY THE  ACTIVATION  OF  EITHER
THE  LIGHTS OR THE LIGHTS AND SIREN OF SUCH VEHICLE, THEREAFTER FAILS TO
STOP THE VEHICLE IN THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES TO SAFELY STOP THE VEHI-
CLE AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
  UNLAWFUL FAILURE TO OBEY A POLICE  OFFICER  WHILE  OPERATING  A  MOTOR
VEHICLE IS A CLASS B MISDEMEANOR.
  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.
                                                           LBD01795-01-9

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