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Assembly Bill A4115

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Makes the commission of use of a mobile telephone or portable electronic device in a motor vehicle with a child therein, a misdemeanor

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2017-A4115 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S330
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1225-c & 1225-d, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9482, S6354
2019-2020: A3113

2017-A4115 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes the commission of use of a mobile telephone or portable electronic device in a motor vehicle with a child therein, a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of between $150 and $500, imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both such fine and imprisonment.

2017-A4115 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4115
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic  law,  in  relation  to  use  of
   mobile  telephones and portable electronic devices while a child is in
   a motor vehicle
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 1225-c of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by section 6 of part B of chapter  55  of  the  laws  of
 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  A  violation of subdivision two of this section shall be a traffic
 infraction and shall be punishable by a fine  of  not  less  than  fifty
 dollars  nor  more  than  two hundred dollars upon conviction of a first
 violation; upon conviction of a second violation,  both  of  which  were
 committed  within  a  period of eighteen months, such violation shall be
 punished by a fine of not less than fifty  dollars  nor  more  than  two
 hundred  fifty  dollars;  upon  conviction  of  a  third  or  subsequent
 violation, all of which were  committed  within  a  period  of  eighteen
 months,  such  violation  shall  be  punished by a fine of not less than
 fifty dollars nor more than four hundred fifty dollars; PROVIDED, HOWEV-
 ER, THAT IF A CHILD WHO IS FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR LESS IS IN THE  MOTOR
 VEHICLE AT THE TIME OF THE VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION,
 SUCH  VIOLATION SHALL BE A MISDEMEANOR AND SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE
 OF NOT LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS NOR MORE  THAN  FIVE  HUNDRED
 DOLLARS,  IMPRISONMENT  FOR NOT MORE THAN NINETY DAYS, OR BOTH SUCH FINE
 AND IMPRISONMENT.
   § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 1225-d of the vehicle and  traffic  law,
 as  amended by section 7 of part B of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014, is
 amended to read as follows:
   6. A violation of this section shall be a traffic infraction and shall
 be punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two

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

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