Bill Text: NY S04671 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds when a person commits the offense of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree and is operating a motor vehicle while such person has in effect five or more suspensions or revocations, imposed on at least five separate dates, to the crime of first degree aggravated unlicensed operation (AUO) of a motor vehicle.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3983 [S04671 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04671-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4671

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  THOMAS, MURRAY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to first degree
          aggravated unlicensed operation (AUO) of a motor vehicle

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

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Angelica's law".
     3    § 2. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (a) of subdivision  3  of  section
     4  511  of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 169 of the laws
     5  of 2013, is amended and a new subparagraph  (v)  is  added  to  read  as
     6  follows:
     7    (iv)  operates  a  motor vehicle upon a public highway while holding a
     8  conditional license issued pursuant  to  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision
     9  seven  of  section eleven hundred ninety-six of this chapter while under
    10  the influence of alcohol or a drug in violation of subdivision one, two,
    11  two-a, three, four, four-a or five of section eleven hundred  ninety-two
    12  of this chapter[.]; or
    13    (v)  commits the offense of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor
    14  vehicle in the third degree  as  defined  in  subdivision  one  of  this
    15  section;  and  is  operating  a  motor  vehicle while such person has in
    16  effect five or more suspensions or revocations, imposed on at least five
    17  separate dates, pursuant to subparagraph (i), (iii),  (iv),  (v),  (vi),
    18  (vii), (viii), (x), (xi), (xii), or (xiii) of paragraph a of subdivision
    19  two  of  section  five hundred ten of this article, or subparagraph (i),
    20  (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), or (xvii) of paragraph b, or paragraph d  of
    21  such  subdivision,  or  paragraph  a,  b, d, e, or g relating to evading
    22  lawful arrest or prosecution while operating a motor vehicle or motorcy-
    23  cle, or paragraph i of subdivision three of section five hundred ten  of
    24  this article, or paragraph (c), (d), or (e) of subdivision one or subdi-
    25  vision  three  of section five hundred ten-a of this article, or section

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  five hundred ten-b of this article, or section  five  hundred  ten-c  of
     2  this  article, or subdivision two of section eleven hundred ninety-three
     3  of this chapter.
     4    §  3. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 511 of the vehicle and
     5  traffic law, as separately amended by chapters 786 and 892 of  the  laws
     6  of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
     7    (b)  Aggravated  unlicensed  operation of a motor vehicle in the first
     8  degree is a class E felony. When a person is convicted  of  this  crime,
     9  the sentence of the court must be: (i) a fine in an amount not less than
    10  five  hundred  dollars  nor  more than five thousand dollars; and (ii) a
    11  term of imprisonment as provided in the penal law except  that  where  a
    12  person  is  convicted  of this crime under subparagraph (v) of paragraph
    13  (a) of  this  subdivision,  any  term  of  imprisonment  imposed  for  a
    14  violation  of  this  section shall be a definite sentence, which may not
    15  exceed two years, or (iii) where appropriate and a term of  imprisonment
    16  is not required by the penal law, a sentence of probation as provided in
    17  subdivision  six  of  this  section, or (iv) a term of imprisonment as a
    18  condition of a sentence of probation as provided in the penal law.
    19    § 4. Subdivision 7 of section 510 of the vehicle and  traffic  law  is
    20  amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows:
    21    The  commissioner shall provide written notice, in a conspicuous, bold
    22  type, to all persons having four  license  suspensions  or  revocations,
    23  where  a fifth license suspension or revocation could result in a charge
    24  of aggravated unlicensed operation  in  the  first  degree  pursuant  to
    25  subparagraph  (v)  of paragraph (a) of subdivision three of section five
    26  hundred eleven of this article, that a fifth such suspension or  revoca-
    27  tion  would  subject any person charged under such subparagraph (v) to a
    28  class E felony with a definite sentence which may not exceed two years.
    29    § 5. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    30  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.