NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9809
SPONSOR: Zebrowski TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
police reports of traffic accidents to include insurance information for
the parties to the accident
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To amend the current vehicle and traffic law to allow police officers at
the scene of an accident to distinctly indicate and include information
concerning the applicable insurance policies of each party to the acci-
dent.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends subdivision 1 of section 603 of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 432 of the laws of 1997, to allow police
officers to capture insurance information on form MV-104a.
Section 2 provides the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Form MV-104 is an accident report used by civilians to capture the
details of an accident, including their insurance policy provider and
insurance number. This bill will add an additional line to form MV-104A,
so that police officers can record not only the vehicles insurance
number, but the company through which the vehicles are insured. This
will make it much easier for both the parties to the accident, and/or
their attorneys, to retrieve this important information directly from
the police report, thereby expediting the insurance recovery process.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill.
