Bill Text: NY A08190 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8190 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the penalty for unlawfully fleeing a uniformed police officer of the New York city taxi and limousine commission.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to codes [A08190 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08190-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8190--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 11, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Codes --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
         relation to the penalty for unlawfully fleeing a uniformed officer  of
         the New York city taxi and limousine commission
         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 19-506 of the administrative  code
    2  of  the  city of New York, as added by chapter 9 of the laws of 2012, is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    l. A person is guilty of [unlawful] UNLAWFULLY  fleeing  [a  New  York
    5  city  taxi  and limousine] AN enforcement officer OF THE COMMISSION or A
    6  police officer when, knowing that he or she has been directed to  remain
    7  stopped  by  [a New York city taxi and limousine] AN enforcement officer
    8  OF THE COMMISSION or A police officer, the driver of a vehicle  [operat-
    9  ing  pursuant to a HAIL license who is stopped in a zone where he or she
   10  is not permitted to pick up street hails]  LICENSED  BY  THE  COMMISSION
   11  thereafter attempts to flee such officer ON FOOT OR by setting the vehi-
   12  cle  in  motion  and either [travels] TRAVELLING over three hundred feet
   13  without stopping or [engages] ENGAGING in conduct constituting  reckless
   14  driving  as  defined in section twelve hundred twelve of the vehicle and
   15  traffic law. [Unlawful] UNLAWFULLY fleeing [a New  York  city  taxi  and
   16  limousine]  AN enforcement officer OF THE COMMISSION or A police officer
   17  is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not  less  than  seven  hundred
   18  fifty  dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment of
   19  not more than ninety  days  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment.
   20  Notwithstanding  any  contrary  provision  of law, any charge alleging a
   21  violation of this subdivision shall be returnable before a court  having
   22  jurisdiction over misdemeanors.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10966-02-5