Bill Text: NY A03964 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases fines for leaving scene of an accident without reporting.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-12)

Status: (Passed) 2022-08-12 - signed chap.497 [A03964 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03964-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3964

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 29, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. COLTON, PICHARDO, THIELE, MAGNARELLI, McDONOUGH,
          MONTESANO, COOK, WILLIAMS, TAYLOR, SEAWRIGHT, SANTABARBARA, J. RIVERA,
          DICKENS, GUNTHER, B. MILLER, GALEF, DAVILA, GRIFFIN, REYES, GOTTFRIED,
          CRUZ,  J. M. GIGLIO,  NORRIS,  DeSTEFANO,  WALCZYK,  FRONTUS,  WEPRIN,
          DARLING  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, HYNDMAN, MIKULIN,
          WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
          penalties for leaving the scene of an accident without reporting

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 600 of the  vehicle
     2  and  traffic  law,  as amended by section 4 of part AAA of chapter 59 of
     3  the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    c. A violation of the provisions of paragraph a  of  this  subdivision
     5  resulting  solely  from the failure of an operator to exhibit his or her
     6  license and insurance identification card for the  vehicle  or  exchange
     7  the  information  required  in such paragraph shall constitute a class B
     8  misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred fifty  nor
     9  more  than  five  hundred  dollars  in  addition  to any other penalties
    10  provided by law. Any subsequent such violation shall constitute a  class
    11  A  misdemeanor  punishable  by  a fine of not less than five hundred nor
    12  more than one thousand  dollars  in  addition  to  any  other  penalties
    13  provided  by law. Any violation of the provisions of paragraph a of this
    14  subdivision, other than for the mere failure of an operator  to  exhibit
    15  his or her license and insurance identification card for such vehicle or
    16  exchange  the information required in such paragraph, shall constitute a
    17  class A misdemeanor, punishable  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  [five
    18  hundred]  seven hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars
    19  in addition to any other penalties provided by law. Any  such  violation
    20  committed by a person after such person has previously been convicted of
    21  such a violation shall constitute a class E felony, punishable by a fine

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  of  not  less than one thousand nor more than [two] three thousand [five
     2  hundred] dollars in addition to any other penalties provided by law. Any
     3  violation of the provisions of paragraph a of  this  subdivision,  other
     4  than  for  the mere failure of an operator to exhibit his or her license
     5  and insurance identification card  for  such  vehicle  or  exchange  the
     6  information  required  in  such  paragraph,  where  the  personal injury
     7  involved (i) results in serious physical injury, as defined  in  section
     8  10.00 of the penal law, shall constitute a class E felony, punishable by
     9  a fine of not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars
    10  in  addition  to any other penalties provided by law, or (ii) results in
    11  death shall constitute a class D felony punishable by a fine of not less
    12  than two thousand nor more than five thousand dollars in addition to any
    13  other penalties provided by law.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    15  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.