Bill Text: NY A01679 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the penalties for leaving the scene of an accident involving an electric scooter without reporting in the second degree and leaving the scene of an accident involving an electric scooter without reporting in the first degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A01679 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01679-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1679

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
          the  penalties for leaving the scene of an accident involving an elec-
          tric scooter without reporting in the second degree  and  leaving  the
          scene  of  an accident involving an electric scooter without reporting
          in the first degree

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2 of section 1287 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as added by section 10 of part XX of chapter  58  of  the  laws  of
     3  2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  Leaving  the  scene  of  an incident involving an electric scooter
     5  without reporting in the second degree is a [violation] class  A  misde-
     6  meanor.
     7    §  2. Subdivision 2 of section 1288 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
     8  added by section 10 of part XX of chapter 58 of the  laws  of  2020,  is
     9  amended to read as follows:
    10    2.  Leaving  the  scene  of  an incident involving an electric scooter
    11  without reporting in the first degree is a class [B misdemeanor] E felo-
    12  ny.
    13    § 3.  This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have  become  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment
    15  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    16  of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
    17  completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02638-01-3