STATE OF NEW YORK
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2588
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to the penalty for unlawfully fleeing a uniformed officer of
the New York city taxi and limousine commission
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 19-506 of the administrative code
2 of the city of New York, as added by chapter 9 of the laws of 2012, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 l. A person is guilty of [unlawful] unlawfully fleeing [a New York
5 city taxi and limousine] an enforcement officer of the commission or a
6 police officer when, knowing that he or she has been directed to remain
7 stopped by [a New York city taxi and limousine] an enforcement officer
8 of the commission or a police officer, the driver of a vehicle [operat-
9 ing pursuant to a HAIL license who is stopped in a zone where he or she
10 is not permitted to pick up street hails] licensed by the commission
11 thereafter attempts to flee such officer on foot or by setting the vehi-
12 cle in motion and either [travels] travelling over three hundred feet
13 without stopping or [engages] engaging in conduct constituting reckless
14 driving as defined in section twelve hundred twelve of the vehicle and
15 traffic law. [Unlawful] Unlawfully fleeing [a New York city taxi and
16 limousine] an enforcement officer of the commission or a police officer
17 is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than seven hundred
18 fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment of
19 not more than ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
20 Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, any charge alleging a
21 violation of this subdivision shall be returnable before a court having
22 jurisdiction over misdemeanors.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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