STATE OF NEW YORK
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5407
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 11, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, LUPARDO, STECK, HUNTER, KOLB, HAWLEY,
DiPIETRO, STIRPE, BLANKENBUSH, BYRNES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
A. BARCLAY, GIGLIO, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the penalty
for a moving violation which results in the serious bodily injury or
death of another person
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 (i) to read as follows:
3 (i) Every person convicted of a traffic infraction for a violation of
4 any ordinance, order, rule or regulation adopted pursuant to title seven
5 of this chapter which involves a moving violation with a motor vehicle,
6 where such violation results in the serious bodily injury or death of
7 another person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, which shall be punish-
8 able by a fine of no less than three hundred dollars, or imprisonment of
9 not more than thirty days or both such fine and imprisonment, and the
10 completion of a motor vehicle accident prevention course, as defined by
11 article twelve-B of this chapter.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07114-01-9
