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Assembly Bill A2018

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits the writing, sending or reading of text-based communications using at least one hand on a mobile telephone while driving by persons age 24 or younger

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2009-A2018 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1225-c, V & T L

2009-A2018 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the writing, sending or reading of text-based communication on a mobile telephone while driving by persons age twenty-four years or younger.

2009-A2018 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2018

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. JOHN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  prohibiting
  the writing, sending or reading of text messages on a mobile telephone
  while driving by a person age twenty-four years or younger

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of  section  1225-c  of  the
vehicle  and traffic law, as added by chapter 69 of the laws of 2001, is
amended and a new paragraph (h) is added to read as follows:
  (d) "Hand-held mobile telephone" shall mean a  mobile  telephone  with
which  a  user  engages in a call OR WRITES, SENDS OR READS A TEXT-BASED
COMMUNICATION using at least one hand.
  (H) "WRITE, SEND OR READ A TEXT-BASED COMMUNICATION" SHALL MEAN  USING
A HAND-HELD MOBILE TELEPHONE TO COMMUNICATE WITH ANY PERSON OR DEVICE BY
USING A TEXT-BASED COMMUNICATION COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS A TEXT MESSAGE,
INSTANT MESSAGE, ELECTRONIC MAIL OR EMAIL.
  S  2.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 1225-c of the vehicle
and traffic law, as added by chapter 69 of the laws of 2001, is  amended
to read as follows:
  (a)  Except  as  otherwise  provided  in this section, no person shall
operate a motor vehicle upon a public highway while using a mobile tele-
phone to engage in a call; PROVIDED, FURTHER, THAT NO PERSON  AGE  TWEN-
TY-FOUR  OR YOUNGER SHALL WRITE, SEND OR READ A TEXT-BASED COMMUNICATION
while such vehicle is in motion.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04750-01-9

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