Assembly Bill A1149

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires police accident reports to indicate whether the use of a mobile phone contributed to such vehicle accident

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A1149 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S842
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §603, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4184, S1547
2013-2014: A1963, S1296
2015-2016: A5890, S3157
2017-2018: A2647, S4808
2019-2020: A3569

2011-A1149 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires police accident reports to indicate whether a mobile phone was in use at the time of such vehicle accident.

2011-A1149 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1149

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 5, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ, CASTRO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  COLTON, HOOPER, JEFFRIES, REILLY -- read  once  and  referred  to  the
  Committee on Transportation

AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
  accident reports to indicate whether a mobile phone was in use at  the
  time of the accident

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 603 of  the  vehicle  and  traffic
law,  as  amended by chapter 432 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read
as follows:
  1. Every police or judicial officer to whom an accident  resulting  in
injury  to  a person shall have been reported, pursuant to the foregoing
provisions of this chapter, shall immediately investigate the facts,  or
cause  the same to be investigated, and report the matter to the commis-
sioner forthwith; provided, however, that the report of the accident  is
made  to  the  police officer or judicial officer within five days after
such accident. Every coroner, or other official  performing  like  func-
tions,  shall likewise make a report to the commissioner with respect to
all deaths found to have been the result of motor vehicle or  motorcycle
accidents.    Such  report  shall  include  information on the width and
length of trucks, tractors, trailers  and  semitrailers,  which  are  in
excess  of ninety-five inches in width or thirty-four feet in length and
which are involved in such accidents, whether such accident  took  place
in  a  work area and whether it was being operated with an overweight or
overdimension permit.  Such report shall distinctly indicate and include
information as to whether the inflatable restraint system  inflated  and
deployed.  SUCH REPORT SHALL DISTINCTLY INDICATE AND INCLUDE INFORMATION
AS TO WHETHER A MOBILE TELEPHONE, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED  IN  PARAGRAPH
(A)  OF  SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION TWELVE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE-C OF THIS

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

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