Bill Text: NY A09622 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9622

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to penalties for failure to yield to authorized emergency vehicles; includes fines and possible imprisonment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-26 - referred to transportation [A09622 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09622-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9622

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  penalties
          for failure to yield to authorized emergency vehicles

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 1144 of the vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c)  Any  person  who violates the provisions of this section shall be
     4  guilty of a misdemeanor, and for a first  conviction  thereof  shall  be
     5  punishable by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars or by impri-
     6  sonment for not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprison-
     7  ment; for a conviction of a second violation, both of which were commit-
     8  ted within a period of ten years, a person shall be punishable by a fine
     9  of  not  more  than  six hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more
    10  than ninety  days  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment;  upon  a
    11  conviction of a third or subsequent violation, all of which were commit-
    12  ted within a period of ten years, a person shall be punishable by a fine
    13  of  not  more  than nine hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more
    14  than one hundred eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09524-01-3