STATE OF NEW YORK
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6614
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 18, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 penalties
for failure to yield to authorized emergency vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1144 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be
4 guilty of a misdemeanor, and for a first conviction thereof shall be
5 punishable by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars or by impri-
6 sonment for not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprison-
7 ment; for a conviction of a second violation, both of which were commit-
8 ted within a period of ten years, a person shall be punishable by a fine
9 of not more than six hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more
10 than ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment; upon a
11 conviction of a third or subsequent violation, all of which were commit-
12 ted within a period of ten years, a person shall be punishable by a fine
13 of not more than nine hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more
14 than one hundred eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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