Bill Text: NY A00207 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 26-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-05 - reported referred to rules [A00207 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A00207-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        207--B
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. LANCMAN, P. RIVERA, M. MILLER, JAFFEE, BENEDETTO,
         WEISENBERG, COLTON, SCHIMEL, MENG, MILLMAN, JEFFRIES, BRONSON, WEPRIN,
         DenDEKKER,  LINARES,  TITUS,  CASTRO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         ABBATE, COOK, GABRYSZAK, GOTTFRIED, MARKEY, McENENY, NOLAN,  ROBINSON,
         TITONE  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- commit-
         tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and  recom-
         mitted  to said committee -- reported and referred to the Committee on
         Rules -- Rules Committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered  reprinted
         as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules
       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 SHALL 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" PROVIDED, THAT OPERATORS OF LIVERY OR BLACK CAR  VEHICLES  SHALL
    9  HAVE  THE RIGHT BUT NOT THE OBLIGATION TO POST SUCH A SIGN WHILE PROVID-
   10  ING FOR-HIRE VEHICLE SERVICES.
   11    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01400-04-1