Bill Text: NY A01149 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires police accident reports to indicate whether a mobile phone was in use at the time of such vehicle accident.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-18 - reported referred to codes [A01149 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01149-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1149
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ, CASTRO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         COLTON, HOOPER, JEFFRIES, REILLY -- read  once  and  referred  to  the
         Committee on Transportation
       AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
         accident reports to indicate whether a mobile phone was in use at  the
         time of the accident
         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 603 of  the  vehicle  and  traffic
    2  law,  as  amended by chapter 432 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read
    3  as follows:
    4    1. Every police or judicial officer to whom an accident  resulting  in
    5  injury  to  a person shall have been reported, pursuant to the foregoing
    6  provisions of this chapter, shall immediately investigate the facts,  or
    7  cause  the same to be investigated, and report the matter to the commis-
    8  sioner forthwith; provided, however, that the report of the accident  is
    9  made  to  the  police officer or judicial officer within five days after
   10  such accident. Every coroner, or other official  performing  like  func-
   11  tions,  shall likewise make a report to the commissioner with respect to
   12  all deaths found to have been the result of motor vehicle or  motorcycle
   13  accidents.    Such  report  shall  include  information on the width and
   14  length of trucks, tractors, trailers  and  semitrailers,  which  are  in
   15  excess  of ninety-five inches in width or thirty-four feet in length and
   16  which are involved in such accidents, whether such accident  took  place
   17  in  a  work area and whether it was being operated with an overweight or
   18  overdimension permit.  Such report shall distinctly indicate and include
   19  information as to whether the inflatable restraint system  inflated  and
   20  deployed.  SUCH REPORT SHALL DISTINCTLY INDICATE AND INCLUDE INFORMATION
   21  AS TO WHETHER A MOBILE TELEPHONE, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED  IN  PARAGRAPH
   22  (A)  OF  SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION TWELVE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE-C OF THIS
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03656-01-1
       A. 1149                             2
    1  CHAPTER, WAS IN USE AT THE TIME OF SAID ACCIDENT. Nothing  contained  in
    2  this  subdivision  shall  be  deemed  to  preclude a police officer from
    3  reporting any other accident which, in the judgment of such police offi-
    4  cer,  would be required to be reported to the commissioner by the opera-
    5  tor of a vehicle pursuant to section six hundred five of this article.
    6    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day  from
    7  the  date  it  shall  have become a law, provided, however, any rules or
    8  regulations necessary for the implementation of the provisions  of  this
    9  act on its effective date shall be promulgated on or before such date.