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Assembly Bill A1930

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires owners of certain motor vehicles to maintain liability insurance as failure to do so is an E felony

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2009-A1930 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง358, V & T L

2009-A1930 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires owners of trailers, semi-trailers and tractors, other than tractors used exclusively for agriculture, to maintain liability insurance as failure to do so is an E felony; provides strict liability for knowingly failing to maintain liability insurance to the extent required by law.

2009-A1930 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1930

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 14, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. BENJAMIN, WALKER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
  A. GREENE, MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Trans-
  portation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  criminal
  liability  for  certain  motor  vehicle  owners'  failure  to maintain
  liability insurance

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

  Section  1.  Section  358 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended to
read as follows:
  S 358. Otherwise violating THIS article. 1. Any  person  who  violates
any  provision  of  this  article  for  which  another  penalty  is  not
prescribed by law shall be punished by imprisonment for  not  more  than
ninety  days  or  by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or more
than one thousand dollars or both.
  2. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE  CONTRARY,
ANY PERSON OR OWNER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE TRAILER, SEMI-TRAILER OR TRACTOR,
OTHER  THAN  TRACTORS  USED  EXCLUSIVELY  FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES, WHO
KNOWINGLY FAILS TO MAINTAIN LIABILITY INSURANCE TO THE  EXTENT  REQUIRED
BY LAW, SHALL BE GUILTY OF A CLASS E 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.
                                                           LBD05370-01-9

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