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S00752 Summary:

BILL NOS00752
 
SAME ASSAME AS A06492
 
SPONSORFUSCHILLO
 
COSPNSRAVELLA, DILAN, FLANAGAN, LARKIN, MARTINS, MAZIARZ, NOZZOLIO, RANZENHOFER, SAVINO, STAVISKY
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd S1212, add S1212-a, V & T L
 
Establishes the crime of aggravated reckless driving; defines aggravated reckless driving to mean driving or using any motor vehicle, motorcycle or any other vehicle propelled by any power other than muscular power or any appliance or accessory thereof.
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S00752 Actions:

BILL NOS00752
 
01/09/2013REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
03/05/20131ST REPORT CAL.158
03/06/20132ND REPORT CAL.
03/07/2013ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
03/13/2013PASSED SENATE
03/13/2013DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
03/13/2013referred to transportation
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S00752 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           752
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. FUSCHILLO, LARKIN, MARTINS, MAZIARZ, RANZENHOFER --
          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 reckless

          driving and establishes the crime of aggravated reckless driving
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  1212 of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
     2  chapter 47 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 1212. Reckless driving. Reckless driving shall mean driving or using
     4  any motor vehicle, motorcycle or any  other  vehicle  propelled  by  any
     5  power other than muscular power or any appliance or accessory thereof in
     6  a  manner  which unreasonably interferes with the free and proper use of
     7  the public highway, or unreasonably endangers users of the public  high-
     8  way.  Reckless  driving  is  prohibited.  Every  person  violating  this
     9  provision shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor  punishable  pursuant

    10  to articles sixty-five and seventy of the penal law.
    11    §  2.  The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
    12  1212-a to read as follows:
    13    § 1212-a. Aggravated reckless  driving.  Aggravated  reckless  driving
    14  shall  mean  driving or using any motor vehicle, motorcycle or any other
    15  vehicle propelled by any power other than muscular power or  any  appli-
    16  ance or accessory thereof:
    17    (1)  in  a  manner which creates a grave risk of death to users of the
    18  public highway, or knowing or having reason  to  know  the  operator  is
    19  driving  against  the  flow  of  traffic and the wrong way, the operator
    20  continues to do so. Failure to perceive said wrong  way  travel  due  to

    21  impairment or intoxication is also a violation of this section, or
    22    (2)  at speeds of thirty miles per hour or more above the posted speed
    23  limit and in an impaired or intoxicated condition pursuant  to  subdivi-
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01336-01-3

        S. 752                              2
 
     1  sions  two, two-a, three, four or four-a of section eleven hundred nine-
     2  ty-two of this title, or
     3    (3)  at speeds of thirty miles per hour or more above the posted speed
     4  limit while racing or pursuing one or more other vehicles, or

     5    (4) at speeds of thirty miles per hour or more above the posted  speed
     6  limit,  the  driver  passes three or more times between the travel lanes
     7  and other vehicles on the roadway in violation  of  subdivision  (a)  of
     8  section eleven hundred twenty-eight of this title.
     9    A  person  violating  any  of  the provisions of this chapter shall be
    10  guilty of a class E felony punishable pursuant  to  articles  sixty-five
    11  and seventy of the penal law.
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    13  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
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