STATE OF NEW YORK
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1575
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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 leaving the
scene of an incident without reporting
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 600 of the vehicle
2 and traffic law, as amended by section 4 of part AAA of chapter 59 of
3 the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
4 c. A violation of the provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision
5 resulting solely from the failure of an operator to exhibit his or her
6 license and insurance identification card for the vehicle or exchange
7 the information required in such paragraph shall constitute a class B
8 misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred fifty nor
9 more than five hundred dollars in addition to any other penalties
10 provided by law. Any subsequent such violation shall constitute a class
11 A misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred nor
12 more than one thousand dollars in addition to any other penalties
13 provided by law. Any violation of the provisions of paragraph a of this
14 subdivision, other than for the mere failure of an operator to exhibit
15 his or her license and insurance identification card for such vehicle or
16 exchange the information required in such paragraph, shall constitute a
17 class A misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred
18 dollars nor more than one thousand dollars in addition to any other
19 penalties provided by law. Any such violation committed by a person
20 after such person has previously been convicted of such a violation
21 shall constitute a class E felony, punishable by a fine of not less than
22 one thousand nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars in addition
23 to any other penalties provided by law. Any violation of the provisions
24 of paragraph a of this subdivision, other than for the mere failure of
25 an operator to exhibit his or her license and insurance identification
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 card for such vehicle or exchange the information required in such para-
2 graph, where the personal injury involved (i) results in serious phys-
3 ical injury, as defined in section 10.00 of the penal law, shall consti-
4 tute a class [E] D felony, punishable by a fine of not less than one
5 thousand nor more than five thousand dollars in addition to any other
6 penalties provided by law, or (ii) results in death shall constitute a
7 class [D] C felony punishable by a fine of not less than two thousand
8 nor more than five thousand dollars in addition to any other penalties
9 provided by law.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
11 it shall have become a law.
