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Assembly Bill A3601

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Increases the penalties for moving violations which result in the serious bodily injury or death of another person

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2017-A3601 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1800, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A9913

2017-A3601 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the penalties for moving violations which result in the serious bodily injury or death of another person.

2017-A3601 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3601
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. BUTLER, ERRIGO, MONTESANO, McDONOUGH, LUPINACCI
   -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of  A.  BLANKENBUSH  --  read  once  and
   referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing
   the penalties for moving violations which result in the serious bodily
   injury or death of another person
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 1800 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision (i) to read as follows:
   (I) EVERY PERSON CONVICTED OF A TRAFFIC INFRACTION FOR A VIOLATION  OF
 ANY ORDINANCE, ORDER, RULE OR REGULATION ADOPTED PURSUANT TO TITLE SEVEN
 OF  THIS CHAPTER WHICH INVOLVES A MOVING VIOLATION WITH A MOTOR VEHICLE,
 WHERE SUCH VIOLATION RESULTS IN THE SERIOUS BODILY INJURY  OR  DEATH  OF
 ANOTHER PERSON, SHALL BE PUNISHABLE AS FOLLOWS:
   1. FOR A FIRST OFFENSE, BY: (I) A FINE OF UP TO THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS;
 (II)  A  LICENSE  SUSPENSION  OF  UP TO SIX MONTHS; AND (III) A MANDATED
 DRIVER SAFETY COURSE;
   2. FOR A SECOND OFFENSE, BY: (I) A FINE OF UP TO ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS;
 (II) A LICENSE SUSPENSION OF UP TO TWELVE MONTHS; AND (III)  A  MANDATED
 DRIVER  SAFETY COURSE. SUCH PERSON SHALL ALSO BE GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR
 AND SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A SENTENCE OF UP TO ONE HUNDRED TWENTY  DAYS  IN
 JAIL; AND
   3. FOR A THIRD OR SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE, BY PERMANENT LICENSE REVOCATION.
 SUCH  PERSON  SHALL ALSO BE GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND SHALL BE SUBJECT
 TO A SENTENCE OF UP TO TWELVE MONTHS IN JAIL.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01385-01-7

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