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Assembly Bill A5074

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to crime of staging a motor vehicle accident

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2017-A5074 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §§176.75 & 176.80, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A7989
2015-2016: A2099

2017-A5074 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the crimes of staging a motor vehicle accident in the first and second degrees; prohibits acting as a passenger or an operator of a motor vehicle with intent to defraud by means of planning and execution of an accident; provides crime is a class D felony if an uninvolved party is injured.

2017-A5074 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5074
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to staging a motor vehicle
   accident
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Alice's Law".
   §  2.  The  penal law is amended by adding two new sections 176.75 and
 176.80 to read as follows:
 § 176.75 STAGING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF STAGING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN  THE  SECOND
 DEGREE  WHEN,  WITH  INTENT  TO COMMIT A FRAUDULENT INSURANCE ACT, HE OR
 SHE:
   (1) OPERATES A MOTOR VEHICLE AND INTENTIONALLY CAUSES OR  ATTEMPTS  TO
 CAUSE A COLLISION INVOLVING A MOTOR VEHICLE; OR
   (2)  SOLICITS, REQUESTS, COMMANDS, IMPORTUNES OR OTHERWISE ATTEMPTS TO
 CAUSE ANOTHER PERSON TO INTENTIONALLY  CAUSE  A  COLLISION  INVOLVING  A
 MOTOR VEHICLE.
   STAGING  A  MOTOR  VEHICLE  ACCIDENT IN THE SECOND DEGREE IS A CLASS E
 FELONY.
 § 176.80 STAGING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF STAGING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT  IN  THE  FIRST
 DEGREE  WHEN  HE  OR  SHE COMMITS THE OFFENSE OF STAGING A MOTOR VEHICLE
 ACCIDENT IN THE SECOND DEGREE AND  CAUSES  SERIOUS  PERSONAL  INJURY  OR
 DEATH TO ANOTHER PERSON, OTHER THAN A PARTICIPANT IN SUCH OFFENSE.
   STAGING  A  MOTOR  VEHICLE  ACCIDENT  IN THE FIRST DEGREE IS A CLASS D
 FELONY.
   § 3. 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.
                                                            LBD09085-01-7

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