Bill Text: NY A01435 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases penalties for driving while ability impaired for a person having been convicted of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol within the preceding five years to a misdemeanor which is punishable by a fine of not less than $750.00 nor more than $1000.00 or by imprisonment of not more than 90 days; increases penalties for driving while ability impaired for a person having been convicted two or more times of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol within the preceding 10 years to a misdemeanor which is punishable by a fine of not less than $1000.00 nor more than $2000.00 or imprisonment of not more than 180 days.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to transportation [A01435 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A01435-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1435 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the penal- ties for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alco- hol or drugs THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 1193 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 75 of the laws of 1994, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (a) Driving while ability impaired. A violation of subdivision one of 5 section eleven hundred ninety-two of this article shall be a traffic 6 infraction and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than three 7 hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in 8 a penitentiary or county jail for not more than fifteen days, or by both 9 such fine and imprisonment. A person who operates a vehicle in violation 10 of such subdivision after having been convicted of a violation of any 11 subdivision of section eleven hundred ninety-two of this article within 12 the preceding five years shall be GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR, AND SHALL BE 13 punished by a fine of not less than [five] SEVEN hundred FIFTY dollars 14 nor more than [seven hundred fifty] ONE THOUSAND dollars, or by impri- 15 sonment of not more than [thirty] NINETY days in a penitentiary or coun- 16 ty jail or by both such fine and imprisonment. A person who operates a 17 vehicle in violation of such subdivision after having been convicted two 18 or more times of a violation of any subdivision of section eleven 19 hundred ninety-two of this article within the preceding ten years shall 20 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less 21 than [seven hundred fifty] ONE THOUSAND dollars nor more than [fifteen 22 hundred] TWO THOUSAND dollars, or by imprisonment of not more than one EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05754-01-3 A. 1435 2 1 hundred eighty days in a penitentiary or county jail or by both such 2 fine and imprisonment. 3 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 4 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.