Bill Text: NY S05424 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for the revocation of a person's driver's license who has been convicted of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-08 - referred to transportation [S05424 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05424-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5424--A
            Cal. No. 460

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens. MARTINEZ, ADDABBO, BORRELLO, PALUMBO -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in
          accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from  said
          committee,  ordered  to  first  and  second report, ordered to a third
          reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining  its  place  in  the
          order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to amend the navigation law and the vehicle and traffic law, in
          relation  to  revoking  a  person's  driver's  license  following  the
          conviction  of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol
          or drugs

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section 49-a of the navigation law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a. Privilege to operate a motor vehicle; suspension. The court shall
     4  suspend a person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle and may  suspend
     5  a  motor vehicle registration in the same manner as defined under subdi-
     6  vision two of section eleven hundred ninety-three  of  the  vehicle  and
     7  traffic  law  where an operator is convicted of a violation of paragraph
     8  (a), (b), (d) or (e) of subdivision two of this section or  a  violation
     9  of section forty-nine-b of this part.
    10    §  2.  Clause (c) of subparagraph 12 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 2
    11  of section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter  732
    12  of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
    13    (c)  For  revocations or suspensions imposed pursuant to clause (a) of
    14  this subparagraph and subdivision 3-a of  section  forty-nine-a  of  the
    15  navigation  law,  the commissioner may adopt rules to permit conditional
    16  or restricted operation of a motor vehicle by any such  person  after  a
    17  mandatory revocation period of not less than three years subject to such
    18  criteria, terms and conditions as established by the commissioner.
    19    § 3. 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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