Bill Text: NY A01345 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits the provision permitting the commissioner of motor vehicles to suspend the license or registration of a person whose check is dishonored after presented to such commissioner for payment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-05-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [A01345 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01345-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  dishonored
         check fees
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 202-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as  added  by
    2  chapter 190 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 202-b. Penalties  for submission of dishonored checks. A thirty-five
    4  dollar penalty fee shall be charged to any person who  has  submitted  a
    5  check  to  the  commissioner  or  his  or  her  agent as payment for any
    6  license, permit or registration or any other type of fee for any type of
    7  transaction as required by this chapter and such check has been  dishon-
    8  ored.  Such  thirty-five dollar penalty shall be added to the amount due
    9  to the commissioner. In addition,  [any  or  all  licenses,  permits  or
   10  registrations] THE LICENSE, PERMIT OR REGISTRATION issued in the name of
   11  such person FOR WHICH SUCH CHECK WAS SUBMITTED may be suspended [and, if
   12  a  suspension has been issued, any other transaction in the name of such
   13  person with this department may be prohibited] until  full  satisfaction
   14  of the amount due to the commissioner and the thirty-five dollar penalty
   15  fee  is  paid  to  the  commissioner. No such suspension shall be issued
   16  until thirty days after  notification  that  the  check  THAT  has  been
   17  dishonored  is  mailed  to  such  person. If satisfaction is made within
   18  thirty days from the date of mailing of such notification, no suspension
   19  shall be issued.
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   21  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03207-01-1