Provides that a person is guilty of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree when such person commits the offense of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree and causes the death or serious physical injury of another person.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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800
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to aggravated
unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph (v) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of
section 511 of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 722 of
the laws of 2023, is amended and a new subparagraph (vi) is added to
read as follows:
(v) commits the offense of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor
vehicle in the third degree as defined in subdivision one of this
section; and is operating a motor vehicle while such person has in
effect five or more suspensions or revocations, imposed on at least five
separate dates, pursuant to subparagraph (i), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi),
(vii), (viii), (x), (xi), (xii), or (xiii) of paragraph a of subdivision
two of section five hundred ten of this article, or subparagraph (i),
(xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), or (xvii) of paragraph b, or paragraph d of
such subdivision, or paragraph a, b, d, e, or g relating to evading
lawful arrest or prosecution while operating a motor vehicle or motorcy-
cle, or paragraph i of subdivision three of section five hundred ten of
this article, or paragraph (c), (d), or (e) of subdivision one or subdi-
vision three of section five hundred ten-a of this article, or section
five hundred ten-b of this article, or section five hundred ten-c of
this article, or subdivision two of section eleven hundred ninety-three
of this chapter[.]; OR
(VI) COMMITS THE OFFENSE OF AGGRAVATED UNLICENSED OPERATION OF A MOTOR
VEHICLE IN THE THIRD DEGREE AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
SECTION; AND CAUSES THE DEATH OR SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY OF ANOTHER
PERSON.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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