Int. No. 603-A

By Council Members Van Bramer, Rodriguez, Chin, Gibson, Koo, Lander, Mendez, Richards, Rose, Vallone, Rosenthal, Williams, Kallos, Reynoso, Menchaca, Torres, Cabrera, Cohen, Levine, Constantinides, Koslowitz, Ferreras-Copeland, Greenfield, Levin, Espinal, Cumbo, Vacca, Garodnick, Deutsch, Johnson, Dromm, Mealy and Ulrich

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing civil penalties for leaving the scene of an incident without reporting

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivisions a and b of section 19-191 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 50 for the year 2014, are amended to read as follows:

a. Except as provided in the vehicle and traffic law, in addition to or as an alternative to any penalties assessed thereunder, any driver who, knowing or having cause to know that damage has been caused to the real property or the personal property of another due to an incident involving the driver’s motor vehicle, leaves the scene of an incident without complying with all of the provisions of paragraph a of subdivision one of section six hundred of the vehicle and traffic law, shall be liable for a civil penalty, recoverable at the environmental control board, of not [more than] less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for the first violation and not less than one thousand dollars nor more than two thousand dollars for a second or subsequent violation.

b. Except as provided in the vehicle and traffic law, in addition to or as an alternative to any penalties assessed thereunder, any driver who, knowing or having cause to know that physical injury has been caused to another person due to an incident involving the driver’s motor vehicle, leaves the scene of an incident without complying with all of the provisions of paragraph a of subdivision two of section six hundred of the vehicle and traffic law, shall be liable for a civil penalty, recoverable at the environmental control board, of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than two thousand dollars for the first violation and not less than two thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars for a second or subsequent violation, except where such injury is a serious physical injury, such driver shall be liable for a civil penalty, recoverable at the environmental control board, of not less than two thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars for the first violation and not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars for a second or subsequent violation, and where such injury results in death, such driver shall be liable for a civil penalty, recoverable at the environmental control board, of not less than [five] ten thousand dollars nor more than [ten] fifteen thousand dollars for the first violation and not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars for a second or subsequent violation.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

KET 12/8/15 4:17PM

LS 2949/2014