STATE OF NEW YORK
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4649--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 10, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. COONEY, BASKIN, FAHY, HARCKHAM -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Transportation -- 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 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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