Bill Text: NY A00303 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires persons convicted of DWI-related offenses to reimburse EMS costs associated with their crime.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to transportation [A00303 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A00303-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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303
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, LAVINE, KOLB, HOOPER, GALEF -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. CURRAN, SWEENEY -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to reimburse-
ment for costs incurred by emergency services as a result of driving
while intoxicated
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1-a of section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows:
3 (C-1) A COURT SENTENCING A PERSON PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION MAY ORDER
4 THE PERSON SO SENTENCED TO REIMBURSE ANY PROVIDER OF EMERGENCY SERVICES,
5 INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO POLICE, AMBULANCE, OR FIREFIGHTING
6 SERVICES, FOR COSTS INCURRED AS A RESULT OF ANY EMERGENCY RESPONSE
7 RESULTING FROM THE INCIDENCE OF OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE FOR WHICH A
8 PERSON HAS BEEN SENTENCED.
9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
10 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.
LBD02711-01-3
