Bill Text: NY A05014 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that the people must be ready for trial within sixty days of the commencement of a criminal action when the defendant is charged with a traffic infraction.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-16 - enacting clause stricken [A05014 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A05014-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5014
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 10, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. HAYES, FINCH, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. BURLING, HAWLEY, KOLB, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to speedy trial
time limitations for traffic infractions
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 30.30 of the criminal procedure
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
3 (E) SIXTY DAYS OF THE COMMISSION OF AN OFFENSE WHEREIN THE DEFENDANT
4 IS ACCUSED OF A TRAFFIC INFRACTION AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVI-
5 SION TWO OF SECTION 10.00 OF THE PENAL LAW.
6 S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 30.10 of the criminal procedure law is
7 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
8 (E) A PROSECUTION FOR A TRAFFIC INFRACTION MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN
9 SIXTY DAYS AFTER THE COMMISSION THEREOF.
10 S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08722-01-1
