Assembly Bill A1624

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Creates the crime of criminal evasion

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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-A1624 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1534
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §205.35, Pen L

2009-A1624 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the crime of criminal evasion and makes such crime a class D felony.

2009-A1624 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1624

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  creating  the  crime  of
  criminal evasion

  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 205.35  to
read as follows:
S 205.35 CRIMINAL EVASION.
  A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY  OF  CRIMINAL  EVASION  WHEN HE OR SHE COMMITS A
VIOLATION OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED TWO OR ELEVEN HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR  OF
THE  VEHICLE  AND  TRAFFIC LAW AND WHILE COMMITTING SUCH VIOLATION OR IN
THE IMMEDIATE FLIGHT THEREFROM, COMMITS THE OFFENSE OF RECKLESS  DRIVING
AS  DEFINED  IN SECTION TWELVE HUNDRED TWELVE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC
LAW AND ANY OFFENSE CONTAINED IN SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED  EIGHTY  OF  THE
VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
  CRIMINAL EVASION IS A CLASS D FELONY.
  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.
                                                           LBD02275-01-9

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