Bill Text: NY A05014 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5014 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that the people must be ready for trial within sixty days of the commencement of a criminal action when the defendant is charged with a traffic infraction.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-16 - enacting clause stricken [A05014 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A05014-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5014
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 10, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. HAYES, FINCH, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by --
         M. of A. BURLING, HAWLEY, KOLB, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to
         the Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to speedy  trial
         time limitations for traffic infractions
         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 30.30 of  the  criminal  procedure
    2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
    3    (E)  SIXTY  DAYS OF THE COMMISSION OF AN OFFENSE WHEREIN THE DEFENDANT
    4  IS ACCUSED OF A TRAFFIC INFRACTION AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVI-
    5  SION TWO OF SECTION 10.00 OF THE PENAL LAW.
    6    S  2.  Subdivision 2 of section 30.10 of the criminal procedure law is
    7  amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
    8    (E) A PROSECUTION FOR A TRAFFIC INFRACTION MUST  BE  COMMENCED  WITHIN
    9  SIXTY DAYS AFTER THE COMMISSION THEREOF.
   10    S 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.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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