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                                   5407
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 11, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. THIELE, LUPARDO, STECK, HUNTER, KOLB, HAWLEY,
   DiPIETRO, STIRPE, BLANKENBUSH, BYRNES -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of
   A. BARCLAY, GIGLIO, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the penalty
   for a moving violation which results in the serious bodily  injury  or
   death of another person
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1800 of the vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision (i) to read as follows:
   (I)  EVERY PERSON CONVICTED OF A TRAFFIC INFRACTION FOR A VIOLATION OF
 ANY ORDINANCE, ORDER, RULE OR REGULATION ADOPTED PURSUANT TO TITLE SEVEN
 OF THIS CHAPTER WHICH INVOLVES A MOVING VIOLATION WITH A MOTOR  VEHICLE,
 WHERE  SUCH  VIOLATION  RESULTS IN THE SERIOUS BODILY INJURY OR DEATH OF
 ANOTHER PERSON, SHALL BE GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR, WHICH SHALL BE PUNISH-
 ABLE BY A FINE OF NO LESS THAN THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS, OR IMPRISONMENT OF
 NOT MORE THAN THIRTY DAYS OR BOTH SUCH FINE AND  IMPRISONMENT,  AND  THE
 COMPLETION  OF A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT PREVENTION COURSE, AS DEFINED BY
 ARTICLE TWELVE-B OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07114-01-9