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Senate Bill S2292

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Creates new crime of unlawful failure to provide name and address to injured party or report incident to police involving wheeled non-motorized means of conveyance

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2011-S2292 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง270.40, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
S457

2011-S2292 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the new crime of unlawful failure to provide name and address to injured party or report incident to police involving physical injury resulting from the culpability of the operator of a wheeled non-motorized means of conveyance, as defined, punishable as a class A misdemeanor.

2011-S2292 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S2292 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2292

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 18, 2011
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the penal  law,  in  relation  to  unlawful  failure  to
  provide  name  and  address  to injured party or to report incident to
  police involving a wheeled non-motorized means of conveyance

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

  Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 270.40 to
read as follows:
S 270.40 UNLAWFUL FAILURE TO PROVIDE NAME AND ADDRESS TO  INJURED  PARTY
           OR  TO  REPORT INCIDENT TO POLICE INVOLVING A WHEELED NON-MO-
           TORIZED MEANS OF CONVEYANCE.
  1. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL FAILURE TO PROVIDE NAME AND  ADDRESS
TO  INJURED  PARTY  OR  TO REPORT INCIDENT TO POLICE INVOLVING A WHEELED
NON-MOTORIZED MEANS OF CONVEYANCE WHEN HE  OR  SHE  OPERATES  A  WHEELED
NON-MOTORIZED  MEANS  OF  CONVEYANCE AND IN THE COURSE OF SUCH OPERATION
PHYSICAL INJURY TO ANOTHER PERSON RESULTS THEREFROM DUE TO THE CULPABIL-
ITY OF SUCH OPERATOR AND HE OR SHE FAILS TO PROVIDE HIS OR HER NAME  AND
ADDRESS  TO  THE INJURED PARTY, OR TO REPORT THE INCIDENT TO THE POLICE,
OR BOTH.
  2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, A "WHEELED NON-MOTORIZED MEANS OF
CONVEYANCE" INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED  TO  BICYCLES,  IN-LINE  SKATES,
ROLLER SKATES, SKATEBOARDS AND SCOOTERS.
  UNLAWFUL  FAILURE  TO  PROVIDE NAME AND ADDRESS TO INJURED PARTY OR TO
REPORT INCIDENT TO POLICE INVOLVING A  WHEELED  NON-MOTORIZED  MEANS  OF
CONVEYANCE IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
  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 and shall apply only to
incidents occurring on or after such effective date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07251-01-1

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