Bill Text: NY S04355 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4355 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Enacts the "taxi driver protection act"; requires a sign in every for-hire vehicle that states "ATTENTION: Assaulting A Taxi Driver Is Punishable By Up To Twenty-Five Years In Prison".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO CODES [S04355 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04355-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4355--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 16, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sen. HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of assault of an
         operator of a for-hire vehicle
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "taxi driv-
    2  er protection act".
    3    S 2. Section 60.07 of the penal law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
    4  vision 3 to read as follows:
    5    3.  EVERY  FOR-HIRE  VEHICLE  MAY  POST A SIGN ON THE INTERIOR OF SUCH
    6  VEHICLE STATING IN NOT LESS THAN SIXTEEN POINT  PRINT  THAT  "ATTENTION:
    7  ASSAULTING  A  TAXI  DRIVER  IS PUNISHABLE BY UP TO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN
    8  PRISON".
    9    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00398-02-5