Bill Text: NY A01319 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the period in which a defective equipment violation may be corrected from one to two days.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to transportation [A01319 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01319-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1319
                              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. ZEBROWSKI, BRENNAN, MAISEL -- Multi-Sponsored by
         -- M. of A. TITONE, WEISENBERG  --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
         Committee on Transportation
       AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to extending
         the period in which a defective equipment violation may  be  corrected
         from one to two days
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 376-a of the vehicle  and  traffic
    2  law,  as  amended by chapter 856 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read
    3  as follows:
    4    4. Any complaint issued for any violation  of  section  three  hundred
    5  seventy-five,  three  hundred seventy-six or three hundred eighty-one of
    6  this  article  relative  to  required  equipment,  except  a   violation
    7  described in subdivision two of this section, subdivision forty-seven of
    8  section  three  hundred  seventy-five  of this article, and except for a
    9  violation relating to service brakes, shall be dismissed  by  the  court
   10  before  which the summons is returnable if the violation as set forth in
   11  the summons is corrected not later than one-half hour  after  sunset  on
   12  the  [first]  SECOND full business day after the issuance of the summons
   13  and proof of such correction as set forth in subdivision  five  of  this
   14  section is submitted to the court. For the purposes of this subdivision,
   15  "business day" shall mean any calendar day except Sunday, or the follow-
   16  ing  business  holidays: New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, Memorial
   17  Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans'  Day,  Thanks-
   18  giving Day, and Christmas Day.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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