Bill Text: NY A02437 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to driving while using a portable electronic device; removes the requirement that there be reasonable cause a person using the device has committed a violation to issue a summons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-10 - enacting clause stricken [A02437 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A02437-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2437--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 18, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. WEISENBERG, GANTT -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the use of
portable electronic devices
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 1225-d of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by chapter 403 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 6. A violation of this section shall be a traffic infraction and shall
5 be punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred fifty dollars.
6 [Provided, however, that a summons for operating a motor vehicle in
7 violation of this section shall only be issued when there is reasonable
8 cause to believe that the person operating such motor vehicle has
9 committed a violation of the laws of this state other than a violation
10 of this section.]
11 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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