Assembly Bill A5780

                             
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                                   5780
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
   police  reports  of traffic accidents to include insurance information
   for the parties to the accident

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 603 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 196 of the laws of 2024, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
    1.  Every police or judicial officer to whom an accident resulting in
 injury to a person shall have been reported, pursuant to  the  foregoing
 provisions  of  this  chapter  or pursuant to the provisions of sections
 twelve hundred forty or twelve hundred forty-one of this chapter involv-
 ing a bicycle with electric assist or  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
 sections  twelve  hundred eighty-seven or twelve hundred eighty-eight of
 this chapter, shall immediately investigate the facts, or cause the same
 to be investigated, and report the matter to the commissioner forthwith;
 provided, however, that the report of the accident is made to the police
 officer or judicial officer within five days after such accident.  Every
 coroner,  or  other  official  performing like functions, shall likewise
 make a report to the commissioner with respect to all  deaths  found  to
 have  been the result of motor vehicle, motorcycle, electric scooter, or
 bicycle with electric assist accidents. Such report shall include infor-
 mation regarding the type  or  types  of  vehicles  involved,  including
 passenger motor vehicles, commercial motor vehicles, motorcycles, limit-
 ed use motorcycles, off-highway motorcycles, electric scooters, bicycles
 with electric assist and/or bicycles. Such report shall include informa-
 tion  on  the  width  and length of trucks, tractors, trailers and semi-
 trailers, which are in excess of ninety-five inches in width or  thirty-
 four  feet  in  length and which are involved in such accidents, whether
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 such accident took place in a work area and whether it was  being  oper-
 ated  with  an  overweight  or  overdimension  permit. Such report shall
 distinctly indicate and include information as to whether the inflatable
 restraint  system  inflated and deployed.   SUCH REPORT SHALL DISTINCTLY
 INDICATE AND INCLUDE   INFORMATION CONCERNING THE  APPLICABLE  INSURANCE
 POLICIES OF EACH PARTY TO THE ACCIDENT. Nothing contained in this subdi-
 vision  shall  be deemed to preclude a police officer from reporting any
 other accident which, in the judgment of such police officer,  would  be
 required to be reported to the commissioner by the operator of a vehicle
 pursuant to section six hundred five of this article.
   §  2. This act shall take effect immediately;  provided, however, that
 if chapter 196 of the laws of 2024 shall not have  taken  effect  on  or
 before  such  date then section one of this act shall take effect on the
 same date and in the same manner as such chapter of  the  laws  of  2024
 takes  effect.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.