STATE OF NEW YORK

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1433-A
2003-2004 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 21, 2003

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Introduced by M. of A. Lentol, A. COHEN, MILLMAN, NORMAN, GORDON, WEINSTEIN, MARKEY - Multi - sponsored by - M. of A. ABBATE, BRENNAN, CYMBROWITZ, JACOBS, ORTIZ, ROBINSON, SEDDIO, TOWNS -read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation - committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommended to said committee

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the violation of a designated system of truck routes in a city with a population of one million or more

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

1. Section 1. Section 1800 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2. Adding a new subdivision (f) to read as follows:
3. (F) EVERY PERSON CONVICTED OF OPERATING A TRUCK, TRACTOR OR
4. TRACTOR-TRAILER COMBINATION HAVING A TOTAL GROSS WEIGHT IN EXCESS OF TEN
5. THOUSAND POUNDS IN VIOLATION OF A LOCAL LAW, ORDINANCE, RULE OR REGU-
6. LATION ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF ANY CITY WITH A POPULATION IN
7. EXCESS OF ONE MILLION PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH TEN OF
8. SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION SIXTEEN HUNDRED FORTY OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL,
9. FOR A FIRST OFFENSE THEREOF, BE PUNISHED BY A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN TWO
10. HUNDRED DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS OR BY IMPRISONMENT
11. FOR NOT MORE THAN FIFTEEN DAYS OR BY BOTH SUCH FINE AND IMPRISONMENT.
12. FOR A CONVICTION OF A SECOND VIOLATION, BOTH OF WHICH WERE COMMITTED
13. WITHIN A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS, SUCH PERSON SHALL BE PUNISHED BY A
14. FINE OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARD NOR MORE THAN ON THOUSAND
15. DOLLARS OR BY IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN FORTY-FIVE DAYS OR BY BOTH
16. SUCH FINE AND IMPRISONMENT. FOR A CONVICTION OF A THIRD VIOLATION AND ALL
17. SUBSEQUENT VIOLATIONS, ALL OF WHICH WERE COMMITTED WITHIN A PERIOD
18. OF EIGHTEEN, SUCH PERSON SHALL BE PUNISHED BY A FINE OR NOT LESS
19. THAN ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS, OR BY

EXPLANATION- Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
{ } is old law to be omitted.
LBD02441-03-3

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1. IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN NINETY DAYS OR BY BOTH SUCH FINE AND
2. IMPRISONMENT
3. S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November after it
4. shall have become a law.

.SO DOC A 1433A         *END*         BTXT           2003

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