Provides that a person who has in effect three or more suspensions or revocations of his or her driver's license imposed on at least three separate dates shall be presumed to know that such license was suspended or revoked, for purposes of culpability for aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5776
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. McKEVITT, GRAF, KOLB -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. HAWLEY, STEC -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to aggravated
unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 511 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 173 of the laws of 1990, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) A person is guilty of the offense of aggravated unlicensed opera-
5 tion of a motor vehicle in the third degree when such person operates a
6 motor vehicle upon a public highway while knowing or having reason to
7 know that such person's license or privilege of operating such motor
8 vehicle in this state or privilege of obtaining a license to operate
9 such motor vehicle issued by the commissioner is suspended, revoked or
10 otherwise withdrawn by the commissioner. For the purposes of this para-
11 graph, a person who has in effect three or more suspensions and/or revo-
12 cations of such person's license, imposed on at least three separate
13 dates, shall be presumed to know that such license was suspended or
14 revoked.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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