STATE OF NEW YORK
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7348
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 10, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to the penalty for unlawfully fleeing a uniformed officer of
the New York city taxi and limousine commission
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision l of section 19-506 of the administrative code
2 of the city of New York, as added by chapter 9 of the laws of 2012, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 l. A person is guilty of [unlawful] unlawfully fleeing [a New York
5 city taxi and limousine] an enforcement officer of the commission or a
6 police officer when, knowing that [he or she] such person has been
7 directed to remain stopped by [a New York city taxi and limousine] an
8 enforcement officer of the commission or a police officer, the driver of
9 a vehicle [operating pursuant to a HAIL license who is stopped in a zone
10 where he or she is not permitted to pick up street hails] licensed by
11 the commission thereafter attempts to flee such officer on foot or by
12 setting the vehicle in motion and either [travels] travelling over three
13 hundred feet without stopping or [engages] engaging in conduct consti-
14 tuting reckless driving as defined in section twelve hundred twelve of
15 the vehicle and traffic law. [Unlawful] Unlawfully fleeing [a New York
16 city taxi and limousine] an enforcement officer of the commission or a
17 police officer is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than
18 seven hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by
19 imprisonment of not more than ninety days or by both such fine and
20 imprisonment. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, any charge
21 alleging a violation of this subdivision shall be returnable before a
22 court having jurisdiction over misdemeanors.
23 § 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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