Bill Text: NY A09219 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes police officers to arrest a driver of a motor vehicle in certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-04 - print number 9219a [A09219 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A09219-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9219--A
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 7, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation -- 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 authorizing
police officers to arrest a driver of a motor vehicle in certain
circumstances
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 1146 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (f) to read as follows:
3 (F) NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 140.10 OF THE CRIMINAL
4 PROCEDURE LAW, A POLICE OFFICER MAY, WITHOUT A WARRANT, ARREST A PERSON,
5 IN CASE OF A VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION (B) OR (C) OF THIS SECTION, IF
6 SUCH VIOLATION IS COUPLED WITH AN ACCIDENT OR COLLISION IN WHICH SUCH
7 PERSON IS INVOLVED, WHICH IN FACT HAS BEEN COMMITTED, THOUGH NOT IN THE
8 POLICE OFFICER'S PRESENCE, WHEN THE OFFICER HAS REASONABLE CAUSE TO
9 BELIEVE THAT THE VIOLATION WAS COMMITTED BY SUCH PERSON.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14324-02-2
