STATE OF NEW YORK
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4016--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, SEAWRIGHT, KAY, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
GLICK, LUPARDO, REYES, MEEKS, DILAN, DAVILA -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to fines
imposed for failure to exercise due care and move over when approach-
ing parked, stopped or standing motor vehicles on the shoulder of a
highway
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1800 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (j) to read as follows:
3 (j) Every person convicted of a violation of the provisions of section
4 eleven hundred forty-four-a of this chapter shall for a first conviction
5 thereof be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred seventy-five
6 dollars or by imprisonment for not more than fifteen days or by both
7 such fine and imprisonment. For a conviction of a second violation, both
8 of which were committed within a period of eighteen months, such person
9 shall be punished by a fine of not more than four hundred fifty dollars
10 or by imprisonment for not more than forty-five days or by both such
11 fine and imprisonment. For a conviction of a third or subsequent
12 violation, all of which were committed within a period of eighteen
13 months, such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than seven
14 hundred fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days
15 or by both such fine and imprisonment.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026 and shall apply to
17 violations committed on and after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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