Bill Text: NY A05118 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes peace officers and police officers to impound vehicle when the driver of such vehicle fails to produce an insurance identification card.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A05118 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05118-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5118 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAIA, FINCH, McDONOUGH, GARBARINO, LALOR -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing peace officers and police officers to impound a vehicle when the driv- er of such vehicle fails to produce an insurance identification card The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 319 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by chapter 843 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 3. Every person who operates a vehicle registered in this state, or a 5 vehicle required to be registered in this state, shall, when required by 6 the commissioner's regulations, produce an insurance identification card 7 when requested by any peace officer, acting pursuant to his special 8 duties, police officer or magistrate. The failure to so produce such a 9 card shall be presumptive evidence that such person was operating the 10 vehicle without having in effect financial security required by the 11 provisions of this chapter and such vehicle shall be subject to impound- 12 ment by any peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or any 13 police officer authorized to impound and store such vehicle. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07948-01-9