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                              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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