A 4016: Imposes fines for failure to exercise due care and move over when approaching parked, stopped or standing motor vehicles on the shoulder of a highway.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4016 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing fines for failure to yield when approaching authorized emergency vehi- cles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 1800 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by section 1 of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 3 2003, is amended to read as follows: 4 (e) Every person convicted of a violation of the provisions of section 5 eleven hundred forty-four of this chapter shall for a first conviction 6 thereof be punished by a fine of not more than [two hundred seventy- 7 five] four hundred twenty-five dollars or by imprisonment for not more 8 than fifteen days or by both such fine and imprisonment. For a 9 conviction of a second violation, both of which were committed within a 10 period of eighteen months, such person shall be punished by a fine of 11 not more than [four hundred fifty] six hundred seventy-five dollars or 12 by imprisonment for not more than forty-five days or by both such fine 13 and imprisonment. For a conviction of a third violation and all subse- 14 quent violations, all of which were committed within a period of eigh- 15 teen months, such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than 16 [seven hundred fifty] one thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars or by 17 imprisonment for not more than ninety days or by both such fine and 18 imprisonment. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06998-01-5