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Assembly Bill A10549

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires certain information to be included on a uniform traffic summons and complaint

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2011-A10549 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง207, V & T L

2011-A10549 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain information to be included on a uniform traffic summons and complaint, including the range of possible fines if such person is convicted and other language regarding the driver responsibility assessment fee.

2011-A10549 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10549

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 5, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jacobs) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
  certain  information  to  be  included  on uniform traffic summons and
  complaint

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 207 of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 173 of the laws of 1990, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  1.  Except as otherwise provided, the commissioner shall be authorized
to prescribe the form of summons and complaint in all cases involving  a
violation  of  any  provision  of this chapter, including section twelve
hundred three-c, or of any provision of the tax law or of the  transpor-
tation  law  regulating traffic, or of any ordinance, rule or regulation
relating to traffic, and to establish procedures for proper  administra-
tive  controls over the disposition thereof.  SUCH SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT
SHALL INCLUDE, AT A MINIMUM, THE POSSIBLE RANGE OF FINES AND  SURCHARGES
THAT COULD BE IMPOSED IF SUCH PERSON IS CONVICTED OF THE ALLEGED OFFENSE
OR  OFFENSES  AND  OTHER  LANGUAGE  NOTIFYING  THE  PERSON OF THE DRIVER
RESPONSIBILITY ASSESSMENT FEE, DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF  SECTION
FIVE  HUNDRED  THREE OF THIS CHAPTER. The commissioner is not authorized
to prescribe the form of summons and complaint for parking, stopping  or
standing violations or a violation of article forty-seven or forty-eight
of this chapter.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it  shall  have  become  a law, provided that effective immediately, the
addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
for  the  implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized
and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD16113-01-2

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