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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9809
IN ASSEMBLY
April 9, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
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
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 603 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 432 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 1. Every police or judicial officer to whom an accident resulting in
5 injury to a person shall have been reported, pursuant to the foregoing
6 provisions of this chapter, shall immediately investigate the facts, or
7 cause the same to be investigated, and report the matter to the commis-
8 sioner forthwith; provided, however, that the report of the accident is
9 made to the police officer or judicial officer within five days after
10 such accident. Every coroner, or other official performing like func-
11 tions, shall likewise make a report to the commissioner with respect to
12 all deaths found to have been the result of motor vehicle or motorcycle
13 accidents. Such report shall include information on the width and
14 length of trucks, tractors, trailers and semitrailers, which are in
15 excess of ninety-five inches in width or thirty-four feet in length and
16 which are involved in such accidents, whether such accident took place
17 in a work area and whether it was being operated with an overweight or
18 overdimension permit. Such report shall distinctly indicate and include
19 information as to whether the inflatable restraint system inflated and
20 deployed. Such report shall distinctly indicate and include information
21 concerning the applicable insurance policies of each party to the acci-
22 dent. Nothing contained in this subdivision shall be deemed to preclude
23 a police officer from reporting any other accident which, in the judg-
24 ment of such police officer, would be required to be reported to the
25 commissioner by the operator of a vehicle pursuant to section six
26 hundred five of this article.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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A. 9809 2
1 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
2 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
3 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
4 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
5 on or before such effective date.
