Prohibits the imposition of accident response service fees on insurance companies, drivers or owners of a motor vehicle, or any other person following an accident.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5445
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 18, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. MAISEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting
the imposition of accident response service fees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Article 11 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new section 389 to read as follows:
3 § 389. Accident response service fee. 1. As used in this section:
4 (a) "Accident response service fee" means a fee imposed for the
5 response or investigation of a motor vehicle accident by a law enforce-
6 ment agency; and
7 (b) "Entity" means:
8 (i) The state;
9 (ii) A political subdivision of the state, including:
10 A. a county;
11 B. a city;
12 C. a borough;
13 D. an incorporated town;
14 E. a township; or
15 F. a home-ruled municipality; and
16 (iii) Any governmental entity or agency or department of a govern-
17 mental entity or agency.
18 2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a person or
19 entity shall not impose an accident response service fee on or from an
20 insurance company, the driver or owner of a motor vehicle, or any other
21 person.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
23 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08335-01-1
