Bill Text: NY A05776 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a person who has in effect three or more suspensions or revocations of his or her driver's license imposed on at least three separate dates shall be presumed to know that such license was suspended or revoked, for purposes of culpability for aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to transportation [A05776 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A05776-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5776
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 6, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. McKEVITT, GRAF, KOLB -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
         of A. HAWLEY, STEC -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
         Transportation
       AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to aggravated
         unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 511 of the vehi-
    2  cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 173 of the laws of  1990,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    (a)  A person is guilty of the offense of aggravated unlicensed opera-
    5  tion of a motor vehicle in the third degree when such person operates  a
    6  motor  vehicle  upon  a public highway while knowing or having reason to
    7  know that such person's license or privilege  of  operating  such  motor
    8  vehicle  in  this  state  or privilege of obtaining a license to operate
    9  such motor vehicle issued by the commissioner is suspended,  revoked  or
   10  otherwise withdrawn by the commissioner.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARA-
   11  GRAPH, A PERSON WHO HAS IN EFFECT THREE OR MORE SUSPENSIONS AND/OR REVO-
   12  CATIONS  OF  SUCH  PERSON'S  LICENSE, IMPOSED ON AT LEAST THREE SEPARATE
   13  DATES, SHALL BE PRESUMED TO KNOW THAT  SUCH  LICENSE  WAS  SUSPENDED  OR
   14  REVOKED.
   15    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   16  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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