Bill Text: NY A03360 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a motor vehicle collision reconstruction unit; and to amend the county law, in relation to allowing the district attorney to designate certain crimes to the vehicular crimes prosecutor

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-27 - referred to codes [A03360 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A03360-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3360
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 27, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. EDDINGTON, BRADLEY, CAHILL, CUSICK, ENGLEBRIGHT
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing  a  motor
         vehicle collision reconstruction unit; and to amend the county law, in
         relation to allowing the district attorney to designate certain crimes
         to the vehicular crimes prosecutor
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  223-a
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S  223-A. MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION RECONSTRUCTION UNIT. THE SUPERINTEN-
    4  DENT SHALL ESTABLISH A MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION RECONSTRUCTION UNIT WITH-
    5  IN THE DIVISION OF STATE POLICE. SUCH  UNIT  SHALL  HAVE  THE  FOLLOWING
    6  DUTIES AND POWERS:
    7    1.  TO  CONDUCT  MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION RECONSTRUCTIONS AND ASSIST IN
    8  INVESTIGATIONS INVOLVING MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISIONS WITHIN  THE  JURISDIC-
    9  TION OF THE DIVISION; AND
   10    2. TO COOPERATE WITH AND ASSIST DISTRICT ATTORNEYS AND OTHER LOCAL LAW
   11  ENFORCEMENT  OFFICIALS  IN  THEIR EFFORTS TO INVESTIGATE AND RECONSTRUCT
   12  MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISIONS. THE UNIT SHALL PROVIDE  SUCH  ASSISTANCE  ONLY
   13  UPON  THE  REQUEST OF DISTRICT ATTORNEYS AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFI-
   14  CIALS.
   15    S 2. Section 702 of the county law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
   16  sion 7 to read as follows:
   17    7. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY SHALL DESIGNATE EITHER  HIMSELF  OR  HERSELF,
   18  AND/OR  AT  LEAST  ONE  ASSISTANT  AS  A  VEHICULAR CRIMES PROSECUTOR TO
   19  CONDUCT PROSECUTIONS OF CRIMES COMMITTED PURSUANT  TO  SECTIONS  120.03,
   20  120.04, 125.12, AND 125.13 OF THE PENAL LAW AND ANY VIOLATION OF SECTION
   21  FIVE HUNDRED ELEVEN OR FIVE HUNDRED ELEVEN-A OR TITLE SIX OR TITLE SEVEN
   22  OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW CONSTITUTING A MISDEMEANOR OR FELONY.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04571-01-9
       A. 3360                             2
    1    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    2  it shall have become a law.