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Assembly Bill A5065

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides certain penalties for certain traffic infractions by drivers with certain under age license classifications

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2017-A5065 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2322
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1800, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S3017
2011-2012: A9179, S3225
2013-2014: A4622, S1434
2015-2016: A4911, S797
2019-2020: S3896

2017-A5065 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for suspension of license penalties for licensed drivers under the age of eighteen for violations of certain restrictions: suspension of license for ninety days for the first violation; and suspension of license for one year for second and subsequent violations.

2017-A5065 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5065
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WALTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing
   certain penalties for certain  traffic  infractions  by  drivers  with
   certain under age license classifications

   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 VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDI-
 VISION THREE OF SECTION FIVE HUNDRED ONE  OR SUBDIVISION TWO OF  SECTION
 FIVE HUNDRED ONE-B OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL, FOR A FIRST CONVICTION THEREOF
 AND IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER PENALTIES PROVIDED BY LAW, BE PUNISHED BY A
 SUSPENSION  OF  HIS OR HER DRIVERS' LICENSE FOR A PERIOD OF NINETY DAYS.
 FOR A CONVICTION OF A SECOND AND ALL SUBSEQUENT VIOLATIONS  THEREOF  AND
 IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER PENALTIES PROVIDED BY LAW, SUCH PERSON SHALL BE
 PUNISHED  BY A SUSPENSION OF HIS OR HER DRIVERS' LICENSE FOR A PERIOD OF
 ONE YEAR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04750-01-7

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