Creates the new crime of unlawful failure to provide name and address to injured party or report incident to police involving physical injury resulting from the culpability of the operator of a wheeled non-motorized means of conveyance, as defined, punishable as a class A misdemeanor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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457
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to unlawful failure to
provide name and address to injured party or to report incident to
police involving a wheeled non-motorized means of conveyance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 270.40 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 270.40 Unlawful failure to provide name and address to injured party
4 or to report incident to police involving a wheeled non-mo-
5 torized means of conveyance.
6 1. A person is guilty of unlawful failure to provide name and address
7 to injured party or to report incident to police involving a wheeled
8 non-motorized means of conveyance when he or she operates a wheeled
9 non-motorized means of conveyance and in the course of such operation
10 physical injury to another person results therefrom due to the culpabil-
11 ity of such operator and he or she fails to provide his or her name and
12 address to the injured party, or to report the incident to the police,
13 or both.
14 2. For the purposes of this section, a "wheeled non-motorized means of
15 conveyance" includes but is not limited to bicycles, in-line skates,
16 roller skates, skateboards and scooters.
17 Unlawful failure to provide name and address to injured party or to
18 report incident to police involving a wheeled non-motorized means of
19 conveyance is a class A misdemeanor.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
21 ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply only to
22 incidents occurring on or after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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