Bill Text: NY S01367 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Increases the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus; provides that for the first conviction a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $350 nor more than $500; provides that for a second conviction a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $800; also provides that for a third conviction a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $800 nor more than $1000.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01367 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S01367-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    January 6, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  DILAN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
         the penalties for passing a school bus with its red lights illuminated
         indicating that it is picking up or discharging students
         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  shall: for a first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of
    6  not less than [two hundred fifty] THREE HUNDRED FIFTY dollars  nor  more
    7  than  [four]  FIVE  hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than
    8  thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment; for a conviction of a
    9  second violation, both of which were committed within a period of  three
   10  years,  such  person  shall be punished by a fine of not less than [six]
   11  FIVE hundred dollars nor more than [seven hundred fifty]  EIGHT  HUNDRED
   12  dollars  or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days or
   13  by both such fine and imprisonment; upon a  conviction  of  a  third  or
   14  subsequent  violation,  all  of  which were committed within a period of
   15  three years, such person shall be punished by a fine of  not  less  than
   16  [seven  hundred  fifty] EIGHT HUNDRED dollars nor more than one thousand
   17  dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days  or
   18  by both such fine and imprisonment.
   19    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   20  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03975-01-1
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