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Assembly Bill A6816

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the crime of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree

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2023-A6816 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7754
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §176.75, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A3851, S5232

2023-A6816 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that anyone who directs, hires, requests, encourages, orchestrates or invites another individual to cause a collision involving a motor vehicle shall be guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree.

2023-A6816 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6816
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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 the crime of staging a
   motor vehicle accident in the second degree
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 176.75 of the penal law, as added by chapter 151 of
 the laws of 2019, is amended 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 and in furtherance  of  a  fraudulent
 insurance  act,  he  or  she  operates a motor vehicle and intentionally
 causes a  collision  involving  a  motor  vehicle,  OR  DIRECTS,  HIRES,
 REQUESTS,  ENCOURAGES,  ORCHESTRATES  OR  INVITES  ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL TO
 CAUSE A COLLISION INVOLVING A MOTOR VEHICLE.
   Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree  is  a  class  E
 felony.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD10753-01-3

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