Bill Text: NY A04951 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to motor vehicle accident reports; requires contact information including names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses where available, for all parties and telephone numbers and email addresses where available for all witnesses, for a commercial enterprise where a vehicle or bicycle involved in an accident is operated by an employee or independent contractor of such commercial enterprise.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to transportation [A04951 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04951-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 6, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic  law,  in  relation  to  contact
          information  for  commercial  enterprises  on  motor  vehicle accident
          reports
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision (c) of section 605 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 1996, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    (c)  1. The report required by this section shall be made in such form
     5  and number as the commissioner may prescribe. Such report shall  include
     6  information  on  the  width and length of trucks, tractors, trailers and
     7  semitrailers, which are in excess of  ninety-five  inches  in  width  or
     8  thirty-four  feet  in  length  and which are involved in such accidents,
     9  whether such accident took place in a work area and whether it was being
    10  operated with an overweight or over dimension permit. Such report  shall
    11  distinctly indicate and include information as to whether the inflatable
    12  restraint system inflated and deployed.
    13    2.  The report required by this section shall include contact informa-
    14  tion, including name, address, telephone number, and email  address,  if
    15  available,  for  a  commercial  enterprise where a vehicle or bicycle is
    16  operated by an employee or independent  contractor  of  such  commercial
    17  enterprise. Telephone numbers and email addresses, if available, for all
    18  parties and witnesses shall be included.
    19    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    20  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    21  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    22  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    23  on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05139-01-7