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Assembly Bill A8385

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Includes in facilitating aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle consenting to the operation of a motor vehicle by a person who is under eighteen years old without a license resulting in injury

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2023-A8385 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §511-a, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A4185

2023-A8385 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes in facilitating aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle consenting to the operation of a motor vehicle by a person who is less than eighteen years of age who has never had a license or the privilege of operating such motor vehicle in this state and the vehicle is operated upon a public highway by such person resulting in physical injury to another person.

2023-A8385 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8385
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to including in
   facilitating  aggravated  unlicensed  operation  of  a  motor  vehicle
   consenting to the operation of a motor vehicle by a person who is less
   than eighteen years of age who has never had a license
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 511-a of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 606 of the laws of 1993, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   1.  A person is guilty of the offense of facilitating aggravated unli-
 censed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree when such person
 consents to the operation upon a  public  highway  of  a  motor  vehicle
 registered  in  such person's name knowing or having reason to know that
 the operator of such vehicle:
   (A) is a person whose license or privilege  of  operating  such  motor
 vehicle  in  this  state  or  privilege of obtaining a license issued to
 operate such motor vehicle by the commissioner is suspended, revoked  or
 otherwise withdrawn by the commissioner and the vehicle is operated upon
 a public highway by such person; OR
   (B)  IS  A PERSON WHO IS LESS THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE WHO HAS NEVER
 HAD A LICENSE OR THE PRIVILEGE OF OPERATING SUCH MOTOR VEHICLE  IN  THIS
 STATE  AND  THE VEHICLE IS OPERATED UPON A PUBLIC HIGHWAY BY SUCH PERSON
 RESULTING IN PHYSICAL INJURY TO ANOTHER PERSON.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  neces-
 sary  for  the  implementation  of  this  act  on its effective date are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13705-01-3

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