Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs

Summary

The bill adds the terms “impaired” and “intoxicated” to New York’s traffic law, defining them based on voluntary consumption of alcohol or drugs that affect a driver’s abilities. It lets officers arrest without a warrant drivers who cause or are involved in accidents while violating these provisions, and requires them to submit to breath, blood, urine or oral fluid tests, with refusal treated as a traffic violation. The measure also establishes implied consent and court‑ordered testing rules.

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