Senate Bill S1670

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing the penalty for a moving violation which results in the serious bodily injury or death of another person

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S1670 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6562
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1800, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6748, A9291
2019-2020: S2509, A5407

2017-S1670 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides a minimum penalty of $300 for a moving violation which results in the serious bodily injury or death of another person.

2017-S1670 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1670 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1670
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  FUNKE,  ROBACH,  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the penalty
   for a moving violation which results 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 GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR, WHICH SHALL BE PUNISH-
 ABLE BY A FINE OF NO LESS THAN THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS, OR IMPRISONMENT OF
 NOT MORE THAN THIRTY DAYS OR BOTH SUCH FINE AND  IMPRISONMENT,  AND  THE
 COMPLETION  OF A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT PREVENTION COURSE, AS DEFINED BY
 ARTICLE TWELVE-B OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD04274-01-7



              

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