Expands the definition of driving while ability impaired to include driving while ability is affected to any extent by the voluntary consumption or utilization of a drug.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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949
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. MARCELLINO, GOLDEN, LARKIN, RANZENHOFER -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing
the parameters of driving while ability impaired to include driving
while ability affected by drugs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1192 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by chapter 47 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Driving while ability impaired. No person shall operate a motor
5 vehicle while the person's ability to operate such motor vehicle is:
6 (a) impaired by the consumption of alcohol; or
7 (b) affected to any extent by the voluntary consumption or utilization
8 of a drug as defined in this chapter.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
10 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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