2006 New York Code - Accidents; Reports

 
    § 2413. Accidents; reports. 1. The operator of any ATV involved in any
  accident  resulting  in  injuries  to or death of any person or in which
  property damage in the estimated amount of six hundred dollars  or  more
  is  sustained,  shall  immediately  notify  the  nearest law enforcement
  agency and shall within ten days after such accident report  the  matter
  in  writing  to  the  department,  with a copy thereof to the sheriff or
  police commissioner of the county in which said  accident  occurred.  If
  such operator is physically incapable of making such report and there is
  another   participant   in   the  accident  not  so  incapacitated  such
  participant shall make the report within the allotted  time  after  such
  accident.  In  the  event  that  there  is  no other participant and the
  operator is other than the  owner,  then  the  owner  shall  within  the
  prescribed period of time, after learning of the facts of such accident,
  report  the  matter to the department, together with such information as
  may have come to his knowledge relating to  such  accident.  Every  such
  operator  of  an ATV, or participant of any such accident, or the owner,
  of the ATV involved in any such accident,  shall  make  such  other  and
  additional reports as the commissioner shall require.
    2.  Whenever  any ATV meets with an accident involving a loss of life,
  personal injury or damage to  property  and  the  operator  thereof  has
  knowledge of such accident, he shall stop and give his name and address,
  the  name  and  address of the owner thereof and the registration number
  assigned to said ATV to the injured person or the person sustaining  the
  damage,  or  to  a  peace  or  police  officer.  In the event the person
  sustaining the damage is not present  at  the  place  where  the  damage
  occurred,  the  operator  shall,  as soon as physically able, report the
  same to the nearest law enforcement agency.
    3. A peace, police, or judicial officer who investigates  or  receives
  information  of an accident involving an ATV shall make a written report
  of the investigation or information received, and such additional  facts
  relating  to the accident as may come to his knowledge and mail the same
  within forty-eight hours to the department and keep a record thereof  in
  his office.
    4.  Failure  of any person to report an accident as herein provided or
  failure to give  correctly  the  information  required  of  him  by  the
  commissioner  in  connection with such report shall be a misdemeanor and
  shall constitute a ground for suspension or revocation of the ATV safety
  certificate of any person or the certificate of registration of any  ATV
  involved  in  the accident. The commissioner may temporarily suspend the
  ATV safety certificate of the person failing to make such report or  the
  certificate  of  registration  of the ATV involved in the accident until
  such report has been filed.