Bill Text: NY A09809 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires police reports of traffic accidents to include insurance information for the parties to the accident.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-07-15 - enacting clause stricken [A09809 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09809-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9809

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 9, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          police  reports  of traffic accidents to include insurance information
          for the parties to the accident

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 603 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 432 of the laws of 1997, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    1.  Every  police or judicial officer to whom an accident resulting in
     5  injury to a person shall have been reported, pursuant to  the  foregoing
     6  provisions  of this chapter, shall immediately investigate the facts, or
     7  cause the same to be investigated, and report the matter to the  commis-
     8  sioner  forthwith; provided, however, that the report of the accident is
     9  made to the police officer or judicial officer within  five  days  after
    10  such  accident.  Every  coroner, or other official performing like func-
    11  tions, shall likewise make a report to the commissioner with respect  to
    12  all  deaths found to have been the result of motor vehicle or motorcycle
    13  accidents.   Such report shall include  information  on  the  width  and
    14  length  of  trucks,  tractors,  trailers  and semitrailers, which are in
    15  excess of ninety-five inches in width or thirty-four feet in length  and
    16  which  are  involved in such accidents, whether such accident took place
    17  in a work area and whether it was being operated with an  overweight  or
    18  overdimension permit.  Such report shall distinctly indicate and include
    19  information  as  to whether the inflatable restraint system inflated and
    20  deployed. Such report shall distinctly indicate and include  information
    21  concerning  the applicable insurance policies of each party to the acci-
    22  dent. Nothing contained in this subdivision shall be deemed to  preclude
    23  a  police  officer from reporting any other accident which, in the judg-
    24  ment of such police officer, would be required to  be  reported  to  the
    25  commissioner  by  the  operator  of  a  vehicle  pursuant to section six
    26  hundred five of this article.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14559-01-4
        A. 9809                             2

     1    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     2  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     3  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
     4  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
     5  on or before such effective date.