Bill Text: NY A00242 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes motor vehicles with purposefully obstructed license plates to be impounded at the discretion of law enforcement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-10-03 - print number 242a [A00242 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A00242-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
242--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
___________
Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
impoundment of vehicles with purposefully obstructed license plates
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 402 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 61 of the laws of 1989 and as renumbered by
3 chapter 648 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
4 8. The violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not
5 less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars; PROVIDED,
6 HOWEVER, THAT A MOTOR VEHICLE WITH PURPOSEFULLY OBSTRUCTED LICENSE
7 PLATES SHALL BE SUBJECT TO IMPOUNDMENT AND ANY PEACE OFFICER, ACTING
8 PURSUANT TO HIS SPECIAL DUTIES, OR ANY POLICE OFFICER IS AUTHORIZED, AT
9 SUCH OFFICER'S DISCRETION, TO IMPOUND AND STORE SUCH MOTOR VEHICLE.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01032-02-4
