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Senate Bill S817

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits certain makers of graffiti from obtaining a driver's license until such person reaches eighteen years of age

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2009-S817 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง502 & 510, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S2268

2009-S817 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a person convicted of making graffiti prior to such person's sixteenth birthday shall not obtain a driver's license until such person reaches eighteen years of age; suspends a driver's license of a person of any age for two years where such person is convicted of making graffiti.

2009-S817 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S817 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   817

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 18, 2009
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  prohibiting
  certain persons convicted of the crime of making graffiti from obtain-
  ing a driver's license

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

  Section 1. Section 502 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
  8. EXCEPTIONS. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS SECTION THE
COMMISSIONER  SHALL  NOT  ISSUE  A  DRIVER'S LICENSE TO ANY PERSON UNDER
SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE CONVICTED  OF  THE  CRIME  OF  MAKING  GRAFFITI  AS
DEFINED IN SECTION 145.60 OF THE PENAL LAW UNTIL SUCH PERSON ATTAINS THE
AGE OF EIGHTEEN.
  S  2.   Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 510 of the vehicle and
traffic law is amended by adding a new subparagraph  (xvi)  to  read  as
follows:
  (XVI)  FOR  A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS WHERE THE HOLDER IS CONVICTED OF THE
CRIME OF MAKING GRAFFITI AS DEFINED IN SECTION 145.60 OF THE PENAL LAW.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January 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.
                                                           LBD06422-01-9

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