Bill Text: NY A06156 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for the establishment of standards for the permanent revocation of a license or operating privileges for persistent vehicle and traffic law offenders.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-05 - print number 6156a [A06156 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A06156-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6156--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 15, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TEDISCO, JOHNS, BARCLAY, PALMESANO, CERETTO, DUPREY, TENNEY, HAWLEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BROOK-KRASNY, CROUCH, FINCH, KATZ, MAGEE, TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Trans- portation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the estab- lishment of standards for the permanent revocation of a license or operating privileges for persistent vehicle and traffic law offenders THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 510 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows: 3 12. A. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH BY RULE, STANDARDS FOR THE 4 PERMANENT REVOCATION OF DRIVING PRIVILEGES FOR OPERATORS WHO HAVE BEEN 5 DEEMED TO HAVE ACCUMULATED AN UNACCEPTABLE NUMBER OF SERIOUS MOTOR VEHI- 6 CLE OFFENSES WITHIN ESTABLISHED TIME FRAMES WHICH SHALL BE CALCULATED IN 7 INCREMENTS OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE YEARS. THE TERM "SERIOUS MOTOR VEHICLE 8 OFFENSE" SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING: 9 (I) A CONVICTION FOR VIOLATION OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OR 10 SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO-A OF THIS CHAPTER AND ANY VIOLATION OF 11 ARTICLE THIRTY-ONE OF THIS CHAPTER FOR WHICH REVOCATION OR SUSPENSION OF 12 A LICENSE OR OPERATING PRIVILEGES IS MANDATORY, INCLUDING FAILURE TO 13 SUBMIT TO A CHEMICAL TEST PURSUANT TO SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR 14 OF THIS CHAPTER; 15 (II) A CONVICTION FOR A FELONY, CLASS A OR UNCLASSIFIED MISDEMEANOR 16 SET FORTH IN THIS CHAPTER INVOLVING THE OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, 17 EXCEPT FOR THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION FIVE HUNDRED 18 ELEVEN OF THIS ARTICLE; EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07897-02-4 A. 6156--A 2 1 (III) A CONVICTION FOR A VIOLATION OF SECTION FIVE HUNDRED ELEVEN-D OF 2 THIS ARTICLE; 3 (IV) CONVICTION OF ANY VIOLATION FOR WHICH REVOCATION OR SUSPENSION OF 4 A LICENSE OR DRIVING PRIVILEGES IS MANDATORY PURSUANT TO THIS CHAPTER; 5 (V) CONVICTION FOR A VIOLATION OF ANY PROVISION OF ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED 6 TWENTY OR ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF THE PENAL LAW INVOLVING THE 7 OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE; AND 8 (VI) ANY OTHER VIOLATION DESIGNATED BY THE COMMISSIONER TO BE A SERI- 9 OUS MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSE, PURSUANT TO ADOPTION BY RULE. 10 B. THE RULE FOR ADOPTION OF THE STANDARDS SET FORTH IN PARAGRAPH A OF 11 THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL INCLUDE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CRITERIA FOR A 12 SINGLE OPPORTUNITY FOR RESTORATION OF A RESTRICTED LICENSE OR OPERATING 13 PRIVILEGES AFTER A PERIOD OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE OF 14 THE IMPOSITION OF A PERMANENT REVOCATION AND FULL OPERATING PRIVILEGES 15 AFTER A PERIOD OF NOT LESS THAN TEN YEARS. SUCH CRITERIA SHALL, AT MINI- 16 MUM, REQUIRE THE ABSENCE OF: (I) ANY VIOLATION OF ARTICLE THIRTY-ONE OF 17 THIS CHAPTER, INCLUDING FAILURE TO SUBMIT TO A CHEMICAL TEST PURSUANT TO 18 SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER; (II) ANY VIOLATION 19 OF SECTION FIVE HUNDRED ELEVEN OF THIS ARTICLE; (III) ANY VIOLATION OF 20 ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY OR ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF THE 21 PENAL LAW INVOLVING THE OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE; OR (IV) ANY 22 VIOLATION OF THIS CHAPTER RESULTING IN PERSONAL INJURY TO A THIRD PARTY; 23 AND SHALL CONSIDER FAIRNESS, REHABILITATIVE EFFORT AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN 24 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SUCH CRITERIA. IN ADDITION TO THE REQUIREMENTS SET 25 FORTH IN THIS PARAGRAPH, ANY SUCH RULE SHALL NOT BE INCONSISTENT WITH 26 THE PROVISIONS OF CLAUSE (B) OF SUBPARAGRAPH TWELVE OF PARAGRAPH (B) OF 27 SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER 28 RELATED TO PERMANENT REVOCATION FOR MULTIPLE ALCOHOL-RELATED OFFENSES. 29 S 2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 30 511 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 169 of the 31 laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows: 32 (iii) commits the offense of aggravated unlicensed operation of a 33 motor vehicle in the third degree as defined in subdivision one of this 34 section; and is operating a motor vehicle while under permanent revoca- 35 tion as set forth in subparagraph twelve of paragraph (b) of subdivision 36 two of section eleven hundred ninety-three of this chapter OR PURSUANT 37 TO RULE OF THE COMMISSIONER AS AUTHORIZED BY SUBDIVISION TWELVE OF 38 SECTION FIVE HUNDRED TEN OF THIS ARTICLE; or 39 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.