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                                   2647
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 20, 2017
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON,
   HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
   accident  reports to indicate whether a mobile phone was in use at the
   time of the accident

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 603 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 432 of the laws of 1997, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   1.  Every  police or judicial officer to whom an accident resulting in
 injury to a person shall have been reported, pursuant to  the  foregoing
 provisions  of this chapter, shall immediately investigate the facts, or
 cause the same to be investigated, and report the matter to the  commis-
 sioner  forthwith; provided, however, that the report of the accident is
 made to the police officer or judicial officer within  five  days  after
 such  accident.  Every  coroner, or other official performing like func-
 tions, shall likewise make a report to the commissioner with respect  to
 all  deaths found to have been the result of motor vehicle or motorcycle
 accidents.   Such report shall include  information  on  the  width  and
 length  of  trucks,  tractors,  trailers  and semitrailers, which are in
 excess of ninety-five inches in width or thirty-four feet in length  and
 which  are  involved in such accidents, whether such accident took place
 in a work area and whether it was being operated with an  overweight  or
 overdimension permit.  Such report shall distinctly indicate and include
 information  as  to whether the inflatable restraint system inflated and
 deployed. SUCH REPORT SHALL DISTINCTLY INDICATE AND INCLUDE  INFORMATION
 AS  TO  WHETHER A MOBILE TELEPHONE, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH
 (A) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION TWELVE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE-C  OF  THIS
 CHAPTER,  WAS  IN USE AT THE TIME OF SAID ACCIDENT. Nothing contained in
 this subdivision shall be deemed  to  preclude  a  police  officer  from
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 reporting any other accident which, in the judgment of such police offi-
 cer,  would be required to be reported to the commissioner by the opera-
 tor of a vehicle pursuant to section six hundred five of this article.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall have become a law, provided, however, any rules or regulations
 necessary for the implementation of the provisions of this  act  on  its
 effective date shall be promulgated on or before such date.