Bill Text: NY S02492 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the crime of vehicular manslaughter in the third degree, a class E felony, wherein a person operates a motor vehicle negligently so that the lives or safety of the public might be endangered and by any such operation causes the death of another person.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO CODES [S02492 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S02492-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2492
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 20, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  KLEIN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to vehicular manslaughter  in
         the third degree
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new  section  125.14-a
    2  to read as follows:
    3  S 125.14-A VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
    4    A  PERSON IS GUILTY OF VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER IN THE THIRD DEGREE WHEN
    5  HE OR SHE OPERATES A MOTOR VEHICLE NEGLIGENTLY SUCH THAT  THE  LIVES  OR
    6  SAFETY  OF  THE  PUBLIC  BE  ENDANGERED AND BY SUCH OPERATION CAUSES THE
    7  DEATH OF ANOTHER PERSON.
    8    VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER IN THE THIRD DEGREE IS A CLASS E FELONY.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   10  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05353-01-9