Relates to the punishment for certain traffic infractions committed by an operator of a stretch limousine or other motor vehicle designed or modified for purposes of having a seating capacity of nine or more passengers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6188--B
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 21, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. GAUGHRAN, CARLUCCI, KAPLAN, KENNEDY, LIU, TEDISCO --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Transportation -- reported favorably from said
committee, ordered to first report, amended on first report, ordered
to a second report and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the
order of second report -- recommitted to the Committee on Transporta-
tion in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to penalties
for U-turn violations committed by operators of stretch limousines
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision c of section 1161 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by section 14 of part III of chapter 59 of the laws of
3 2019, is amended to read as follows:
4 c. No altered motor vehicle commonly referred to as a "stretch limou-
5 sine" having a seating capacity of [ten] nine or more passengers includ-
6 ing the driver shall make a U-turn upon any public highway or private
7 road open to public motor vehicle traffic. Every person convicted of a
8 violation of this subdivision shall: for a first conviction thereof, be
9 punished by a fine of not less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more
10 than four hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than fifteen
11 days or by both such fine and imprisonment; for a conviction of a second
12 or subsequent violation, both of which were committed within a period of
13 eighteen months, such person shall be punished by a fine of not less
14 than six hundred dollars nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars or by
15 imprisonment for not more than forty-five days or by both such fine and
16 imprisonment. A violation of this subdivision wherein the violator is
17 operating such altered motor vehicle and such altered motor vehicle is
18 carrying at least one passenger other than the driver shall be punisha-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ble by a fine of not less than seven hundred fifty dollars nor more than
2 one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred
3 eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
5 law; provided, however that if part III of chapter 59 of the laws of
6 2019 shall not have taken effect on or before such date, then section
7 one of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
8 manner as such part of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019 takes effect.
