Bill Text: NY S05531 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the penalties for leaving the scene of an incident involving a wheeled non-motorized means of conveyance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S05531 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05531-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5531
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
May 14, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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 incident involving a wheeled
non-motorized means of conveyance
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 1240 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by chapter 468 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. Leaving the scene of an incident involving a wheeled non-motorized
5 means of conveyance without reporting in the second degree is a
6 [violation] CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
7 S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 1241 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
8 added by chapter 468 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
9 2. Leaving the scene of an incident involving a wheeled non-motorized
10 means of conveyance without reporting in the first degree is a class [B
11 misdemeanor] E FELONY.
12 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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