STATE OF NEW YORK
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200
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, ADDABBO, BORRELLO, MURRAY, PALUMBO -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the navigation law and the vehicle and traffic law, in
relation to revoking a person's driver's license following the
conviction of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol
or drugs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 49-a of the navigation law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
3 3-a. Privilege to operate a motor vehicle; suspension. The court shall
4 suspend a person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle and may suspend
5 a motor vehicle registration in the same manner as defined under subdi-
6 vision two of section eleven hundred ninety-three of the vehicle and
7 traffic law where an operator is convicted of a violation of paragraph
8 (a), (b), (d) or (e) of subdivision two of this section or a violation
9 of section forty-nine-b of this part.
10 § 2. Clause (c) of subparagraph 12 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 2
11 of section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 732
12 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
13 (c) For revocations or suspensions imposed pursuant to clause (a) of
14 this subparagraph and subdivision 3-a of section forty-nine-a of the
15 navigation law, the commissioner may adopt rules to permit conditional
16 or restricted operation of a motor vehicle by any such person after a
17 mandatory revocation period of not less than three years subject to such
18 criteria, terms and conditions as established by the commissioner.
19 § 3. 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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