Bill Text: NY A10981 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Reduces the classification of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree from a misdemeanor to a violation and adjusts the sentencing guidelines for such offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-09 - referred to transportation [A10981 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10981-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10981 IN ASSEMBLY September 9, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Buttenschon) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to reducing the classification of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree from a misdemeanor to a violation and adjusting the sentencing guidelines for such offense The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 511 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 607 of the laws of 1993, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (b) Aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third 5 degree is a [misdemeanor] violation. When a person is convicted of this 6 offense, the sentence of the court must be: (i) a fine of not less than 7 two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars; or (ii) a term 8 of imprisonment of not more than [thirty] fifteen days; or (iii) both 9 such fine and imprisonment. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD17039-01-0
