Bill Text: NY A00693 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the suspension of the license to operate a motor vehicle of any person who was operating a motor vehicle at the time of an accident which resulted in a fatality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A00693 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00693-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           693

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          the suspension of the license to operate a motor vehicle of any person
          who  was  operating  a  motor vehicle at the time of an accident which
          resulted in a fatality

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

     1    Section  1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 510 of the vehicle
     2  and traffic law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xviii) to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    (xviii)  for  a  period  no less than sixty days but no later than the
     5  successful completion of the requirements set forth under this  subpara-
     6  graph  where  the holder was operating a motor vehicle at the time of an
     7  accident which resulted in  a  fatality.  A  person  whose  license  was
     8  suspended  under this subparagraph shall not have their license restored
     9  before the successful recompletion of all requirements under subdivision
    10  four of section five hundred two of this article for such license  which
    11  shall  not  take  place before the sixtieth day after the accident which
    12  resulted in the suspension.
    13    § 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
    14  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective imme-
    15  diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
    16  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
    17  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01069-01-3