Creates the crimes of staging a motor vehicle accident in the first and second degrees; prohibits acting as a passenger or an operator of a motor vehicle with intent to defraud by means of planning and execution of an accident; provides crime is a class D felony if an uninvolved party is injured.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5074
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to staging a motor vehicle
accident
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Alice's Law".
2 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding two new sections 176.75 and
3 176.80 to read as follows:
4 § 176.75 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree.
5 A person is guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second
6 degree when, with intent to commit a fraudulent insurance act, he or
7 she:
8 (1) operates a motor vehicle and intentionally causes or attempts to
9 cause a collision involving a motor vehicle; or
10 (2) solicits, requests, commands, importunes or otherwise attempts to
11 cause another person to intentionally cause a collision involving a
12 motor vehicle.
13 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree is a class E
14 felony.
15 § 176.80 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the first degree.
16 A person is guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the first
17 degree when he or she commits the offense of staging a motor vehicle
18 accident in the second degree and causes serious personal injury or
19 death to another person, other than a participant in such offense.
20 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the first degree is a class D
21 felony.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
23 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09085-01-7
