Bill Text: CT HB05457 | 2010 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Penalties For Harm To Vulnerable Users Of A Public Way.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-4-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-29 - Senate Calendar Number 515 [HB05457 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2010-HB05457-Comm_Sub.html
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February Session, 2010 |
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AN ACT CONCERNING PENALTIES FOR HARM TO VULNERABLE USERS OF A PUBLIC WAY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2010) (a) A person is guilty of misconduct with a motor vehicle in the second degree when, with criminal negligence in the operation of a motor vehicle, such person causes the serious physical injury of a vulnerable user of a public way.
(b) For the purposes of this section:
(1) "Vulnerable user" means (A) a pedestrian, (B) a highway worker, as defined in section 14-212d of the general statutes, including a highway worker who performs duties on a highway under the control of a political subdivision of the state, while in the performance of his or her duties and while outside his or her vehicle, (C) a person riding or driving an animal, (D) a person riding a bicycle, (E) a person using a wheelchair, skateboard, roller skates or inline skates, or (F) a person operating or riding on an agricultural tractor or farm implement, as defined in section 14-1 of the general statutes, that does not have an enclosed passenger compartment; and
(2) "Public way" means a highway, as defined in section 14-1 of the general statutes, shoulder, as defined in section 14-1 of the general statutes, sidewalk, parking area, as defined in section 14-212 of the general statutes, or multi-use trail.
(c) Misconduct with a motor vehicle in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor and any person found guilty under this section shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment, with the execution of such sentence of imprisonment suspended entirely or after a period set by the court, and a period of probation with a condition of such probation being that such person attend a motor vehicle operator's retraining program, as provided in section 14-111g of the general statutes, and perform not more than one hundred hours of community service.
Sec. 2. Section 53a-57 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2010):
(a) A person is guilty of misconduct with a motor vehicle in the first degree when, with criminal negligence in the operation of a motor vehicle, [he] such person causes the death of another person.
(b) Misconduct with a motor vehicle in the first degree is a class D felony.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
October 1, 2010 |
New section |
Sec. 2 |
October 1, 2010 |
53a-57 |
JUD |
Joint Favorable Subst. |