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This bill increases penalties for leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in injury or death in New York.
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Tougher Penalties for Hit-and-Run
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Add Hit-and-Run to Felonies
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor Patrick M. Gallivan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4908
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident that resulted in physical injury or death of a person or persons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivisions 6 and 7 of section 125.14 of the penal law, subdivision 6 as amended and subdivision 7 as added by chapter 496 of the laws of 2009, are amended and a new subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
(6) has previously been convicted of violating any provision of this article or article one hundred twenty of this title involving the operation of a motor vehicle, or was convicted in any other state or jurisdiction of an offense involving the operation of a motor vehicle which, if committed in this state, would constitute a violation of this article or article one hundred twenty of this title; [or]
(7) commits such crime while operating a motor vehicle while a child who is fifteen years of age or less is a passenger in such motor vehicle and causes the death of such child[.]; or
(8) commits such crime and then leaves the scene of the accident in the manner defined in subdivision two of section six hundred of the vehicle and traffic law.
§ 2. Subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 120.04-a of the penal law, subdivision 5 as amended and subdivision 6 as added by chapter 496 of the laws of 2009, are amended and a new subdivision 7 is added to read as follows:
(5) has previously been convicted of violating any provision of this article or article one hundred twenty-five of this title involving the operation of a motor vehicle, or was convicted in any other state or jurisdiction of an offense involving the operation of a motor vehicle
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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which, if committed in this state, would constitute a violation of this article or article one hundred twenty-five of this title; [or]
(6) commits such crime while operating a motor vehicle while a child who is fifteen years of age or less is a passenger in such motor vehicle and causes serious physical injury to such child[.]; or
(7) commits such crime and then leaves the scene of the accident in the manner defined in subdivision two of section six hundred of the vehicle and traffic law.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law.
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