Bill Text: NY A03028 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases penalties for aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second and first degrees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - enacting clause stricken [A03028 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03028-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3028 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing the penalties for aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second and first degrees in certain cases 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 511 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 607 of the laws of 1993, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (b) Aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second 5 degree is a misdemeanor. When a person is convicted of this crime under 6 subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the sentence of 7 the court must be: (i) a fine of not less than five hundred dollars; and 8 (ii) a term of imprisonment not to exceed one hundred eighty days; or 9 (iii) where appropriate a sentence of probation as provided in subdivi- 10 sion six of this section; or (iv) a term of imprisonment as a condition 11 of a sentence of probation as provided in the penal law and consistent 12 with this section. When a person is convicted of this crime under 13 subparagraph (ii), (iii) or (iv) of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, 14 the sentence of the court must be: (i) a fine of not less than [five15hundred] seven hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars; 16 and (ii) a term of imprisonment of not less than seven days nor more 17 than one [hundred eighty days] year, or (iii) where appropriate a 18 sentence of probation as provided in subdivision six of this section; or 19 (iv) a term of imprisonment as a condition of a sentence of probation as 20 provided in the penal law and consistent with this section. 21 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 511 of the vehicle and 22 traffic law, as separately amended by chapters 786 and 892 of the laws 23 of 1990, is amended to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00953-01-9A. 3028 2 1 (b) Aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first 2 degree is a class E felony. When a person is convicted of this crime, 3 the sentence of the court must be: (i) a fine in an amount not less than 4 [five] twenty-five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars; 5 and (ii) a term of imprisonment as provided in the penal law, or (iii) 6 where appropriate and a term of imprisonment is not required by the 7 penal law, a sentence of probation as provided in subdivision six of 8 this section, or (iv) a term of imprisonment as a condition of a 9 sentence of probation as provided in the penal law. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.