Bill Text: NY A10078 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to increasing the penalties for passing a stopped school bus; requires revocation for second offense.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-10 - referred to transportation [A10078 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A10078-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10078 IN ASSEMBLY May 10, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing the penalties for passing a stopped school bus The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 1174 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by chapter 254 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 (c) Every person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) of this 5 section, in addition to any other penalty imposed by this chapter shall: 6 for a first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than 7 two hundred fifty dollars nor more than four hundred dollars or by 8 imprisonment for not more than thirty days or by both such fine and 9 imprisonment; for a conviction of a second violation, both of which were 10 committed within a period of three years, such person shall be punished 11 by a fine of not less than six hundred dollars nor more than seven 12 hundred fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred 13 eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment; upon a conviction of 14 a third or subsequent violation, all of which were committed within a 15 period of three years, such person shall be punished by a fine of not 16 less than seven hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars 17 or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days or by both 18 such fine and imprisonment. 19 § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 510 of the vehicle and 20 traffic law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xviii) to read as 21 follows: 22 (xviii) for a period of sixty days where the holder is convicted of 23 two or more violations within a period of ten years of subdivision (a) 24 of section eleven hundred seventy-four of this chapter. 25 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03103-01-5