STATE OF NEW YORK
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872--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
police officers to arrest a driver of a motor vehicle in certain
circumstances
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1146 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (f) to read as follows:
3 (f) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 140.10 of the criminal
4 procedure law, a police officer may, without a warrant, arrest a person,
5 in case of a violation of subdivision (b) or (c) of this section, if
6 such violation is coupled with an accident or collision in which such
7 person is involved, which in fact has been committed, though not in the
8 police officer's presence, when the officer has reasonable cause to
9 believe that the violation was committed by such person.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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