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10 otherwise withdrawn by the commissioner.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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