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Senate Bill S6989

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to penalties for failure to yield to authorized emergency vehicles

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2015-S6989 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1144, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S4666
2019-2020: S2135
2021-2022: S3412
2023-2024: S4727
2025-2026: S6614

2015-S6989 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to penalties for failure to yield to authorized emergency vehicles; includes fines and possible imprisonment.

2015-S6989 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S6989 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6989

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 14, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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  penalties
  for failure to yield to authorized emergency vehicles

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

  Section 1. Section 1144 of the vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by
adding a new subdivision (c) to read as follows:
  (C)  ANY  PERSON  WHO VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE
GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR, AND FOR A FIRST  CONVICTION  THEREOF  SHALL  BE
PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF NOT MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS OR BY IMPRI-
SONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN THIRTY DAYS OR BY BOTH SUCH FINE AND IMPRISON-
MENT; FOR A CONVICTION OF A SECOND VIOLATION, BOTH OF WHICH WERE COMMIT-
TED WITHIN A PERIOD OF TEN YEARS, A PERSON SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE
OF  NOT  MORE  THAN  SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS OR BY IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE
THAN NINETY  DAYS  OR  BY  BOTH  SUCH  FINE  AND  IMPRISONMENT;  UPON  A
CONVICTION OF A THIRD OR SUBSEQUENT VIOLATION, ALL OF WHICH WERE COMMIT-
TED WITHIN A PERIOD OF TEN YEARS, A PERSON SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE
OF  NOT  MORE  THAN NINE HUNDRED DOLLARS OR BY IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE
THAN ONE-HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS OR BY BOTH SUCH FINE AND IMPRISONMENT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13553-01-6

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