Bill Text: NY S05631 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits a child less than ten years of age from being left unattended in a motor vehicle under conditions presenting substantial risk.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-14 - referred to codes [S05631 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05631-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5631--B 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 21, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting a child less than ten years of age from being left unattended in a motor vehicle under conditions presenting substantial risk The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new 2 section 1210-a to read as follows: 3 § 1210-a. Unattended child in a motor vehicle. 1. No parent, guardian 4 or other person legally charged with the care or custody of a child less 5 than ten years old shall knowingly or recklessly, under conditions that 6 present a substantial health or safety risk, leave such child unattended 7 inside a motor vehicle. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to 8 supersede the provisions of any other applicable section of law. 9 2. A violation of subdivision one of this section shall be a traffic 10 infraction and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than fifty 11 dollars upon conviction of a first violation; upon conviction of a 12 second violation, both of which were committed within a period of eigh- 13 teen months, such violation shall be punished by a fine of not more than 14 one hundred dollars; upon conviction of a third or subsequent violation, 15 all of which were committed within a period of eighteen months, such 16 violation shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred and 17 fifty dollars. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 19 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. LBD00563-05-8
