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Assembly Bill A6549

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for closing a loophole in the aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle allowing a person to escape prosecution if they never held a license

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2009-A6549 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง511, V & T L

2009-A6549 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for closing a loophole in the unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle provision which allowed a person to escape prosecution if they never held a license; currently, aggravated unlicensed operation requires the operator to know or should know that their license to operate has been suspended or revoked, it fails to include persons operating a vehicle without ever being licensed.

2009-A6549 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6549

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 6, 2009
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  the  unli-
  censed operation of a motor vehicle

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 511 of the  vehi-
cle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 173 of the laws of 1990, is
amended to read as follows:
  (a) A person is guilty of the offense of aggravated unlicensed  opera-
tion  of a motor vehicle in the third degree when such person operates a
motor vehicle upon a public highway while knowing or  having  reason  to
know  that  such  person's  license or privilege of operating such motor
vehicle in this state or privilege of obtaining  a  license  to  operate
such  motor  vehicle issued by the commissioner is suspended, revoked or
otherwise withdrawn by the commissioner, OR WHEN SUCH PERSON OPERATES  A
MOTOR  VEHICLE  WITHOUT  BEING  DULY  LICENSED  PURSUANT TO SECTION FIVE
HUNDRED TWO OF THIS TITLE AND SUCH PERSON HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN  CONVICTED
FOR  A  VIOLATION  OF SECTION FIVE HUNDRED NINE OF THIS TITLE WITHIN THE
IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING EIGHTEEN MONTHS.
  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.
                                                           LBD08521-01-9

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