Bill Text: NY A03556 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that it shall be a defense to a charge of a traffic infraction for running a red light that the police manipulated such device with the purpose of assessing a ticket against an individual.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - ordered to third reading cal.147 [A03556 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03556-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3556
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
          ORTIZ, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transporta-
          tion
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to manipulation
          of traffic control signals
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Subdivision (a) of section 1110 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 259 of the laws of 1964, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (a) Every person shall obey the instructions of any official  traffic-
     5  control   device  applicable  to  him  placed  in  accordance  with  the
     6  provisions of this chapter, unless otherwise directed by  a  traffic  or
     7  police  officer,  subject  to  the  exceptions  granted the driver of an
     8  authorized emergency vehicle in this title.  It shall be an  affirmative
     9  defense to any charge of failing to obey a traffic control signal pursu-
    10  ant to section eleven hundred eleven of this article that a police offi-
    11  cer,  peace  officer,  or  other person authorized to issue a summons or
    12  appearance ticket, manipulated such  traffic  control  signal  with  the
    13  purpose of assessing a ticket against an individual.
    14    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately  and shall apply to
    15  violations occurring on and after such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00753-01-9