Provides that the offense of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended driver's license may be enforceable for operating a motor vehicle in a parking lot; defines the term "parking lot" as any area or areas of private property, including a driveway, near or contiguous to and provided in connection with premises and used as a means of access to and egress from a public highway to such premises and having a capacity for the parking of four or more motor vehicles; excludes parking areas for one and two family residences.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1188
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 6, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- 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 the enforce-
ment of the offense of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended
license when such operation occurs in a parking lot
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 511 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 173 of the laws of 1990, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) A person is guilty of the offense of aggravated unlicensed opera-
5 tion of a motor vehicle in the third degree when such person operates a
6 motor vehicle [upon a public highway] while knowing or having reason to
7 know that such person's license or privilege of operating such motor
8 vehicle in this state or privilege of obtaining a license to operate
9 such motor vehicle issued by the commissioner is suspended, revoked or
10 otherwise withdrawn by the commissioner.
11 § 2. Section 511 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
12 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
13 8. Where applicable. The provisions of this section shall apply upon
14 public highways, private roads open to motor vehicle traffic and any
15 other parking lot. For the purposes of this section "parking lot" shall
16 mean any area or areas of private property, including a driveway, near
17 or contiguous to and provided in connection with premises and used as a
18 means of access to and egress from a public highway to such premises and
19 having a capacity for the parking of four or more motor vehicles. The
20 provisions of this section shall not apply to any area or areas of
21 private property comprising all or part of property on which is situated
22 a one or two family residence.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
24 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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