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Assembly Bill A10103

2015-2016 Legislative Session

In relation to the unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle

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2015-A10103 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3508
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง270.25, 270.30 & 270.35, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A5478, S1741

2015-A10103 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to increasing the degree of the offense of unlawfully fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle.

2015-A10103 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10103

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 11, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Codes

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law, in relation to unlawfully fleeing a
  police officer in a motor vehicle

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

  Section  1.  Sections  270.25,  270.30 and 270.35 of the penal law, as
added by chapter 738 of the  laws  of  2006,  are  amended  to  read  as
follows:
S 270.25 [Unlawful] UNLAWFULLY fleeing a police officer in a motor vehi-
           cle in the third degree.
  A  person  is guilty of [unlawful] UNLAWFULLY fleeing a police officer
in a motor vehicle in the third degree when, knowing that he or she  has
been  directed  to  stop  his or her motor vehicle by a uniformed police
officer or a marked police vehicle  by  the  activation  of  either  the
lights  or  the  lights  and siren of such vehicle, he or she thereafter
attempts to flee such officer or such vehicle by driving at speeds which
equal or exceed twenty-five miles per hour  above  the  speed  limit  or
engaging in reckless driving as defined by section twelve hundred twelve
of the vehicle and traffic law.
  [Unlawful]  UNLAWFULLY  fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in
the third degree is a class [A misdemeanor] E FELONY.
S 270.30 [Unlawful] UNLAWFULLY fleeing a police officer in a motor vehi-
           cle in the second degree.
  A person is guilty of [unlawful] UNLAWFULLY fleeing a  police  officer
in  a  motor  vehicle  in  the  second degree when he or she commits the
offense of [unlawful] UNLAWFULLY fleeing a police  officer  in  a  motor
vehicle  in the third degree, as defined in section 270.25 of this arti-
cle, and as a result of such conduct a police officer or a third  person
suffers serious physical injury.
  [Unlawful]  UNLAWFULLY  fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in
the second degree is a class [E] D felony.
S 270.35 [Unlawful] UNLAWFULLY fleeing a police officer in a motor vehi-
           cle in the first degree.

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

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