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Assembly Bill A9951

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to multiple convictions of traffic infractions constituting a felony

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2017-A9951 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §510, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A2731

2017-A9951 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes that any person who has had five different suspensions of his or her driver's license resulting from convictions of five individual point-related traffic infractions shall be guilty of a class E felony.

2017-A9951 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9951
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
   that  five  different  license  suspensions shall constitute a class E
   felony
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  510 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
   12. ANY PERSON WHO HAS HAD FIVE DIFFERENT SUSPENSIONS OF  HIS  OR  HER
 DRIVER'S LICENSE RESULTING FROM CONVICTIONS OF FIVE INDIVIDUAL POINT-RE-
 LATED INFRACTIONS FOR A VIOLATION OF ANY OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAP-
 TER  OR OF ANY LOCAL LAW, ORDINANCE, ORDER, RULE, REGULATION OR ADMINIS-
 TRATIVE CODE PROVISION ADOPTED PURSUANT TO THIS CHAPTER SHALL BE  GUILTY
 OF A CLASS E FELONY.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this act on its effective date is authorized to be made and completed on
 or before such date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14661-01-8

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