Bill Text: NY A03220 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the quantity of disabled person plates issued to a disabled person.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to transportation [A03220 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03220-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3220
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, CROUCH, FINCH, HAWLEY,
          OAKS, SALADINO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McLAUGHLIN, PALMESANO
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the quantity
          of disabled person plates issued to a disabled person
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 596 of the laws of 1982, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    1.  Legislative  intent. It is the sense of the legislature to facili-
     5  tate the usual and special uses of the highways and other motor  vehicle
     6  facilities  accorded  to  severely disabled residents of this state. The
     7  commissioner is hereby empowered to issue to such  persons,  upon  their
     8  application,  special  motor vehicle registrations, [one set of] vehicle
     9  identification plates for motor vehicles owned by  such  persons  to  be
    10  used  for  the  transportation of such severely disabled person and [one
    11  set of] vehicle identification plates for each motor  vehicle  owned  by
    12  such persons and used by a severely disabled member of the owner's fami-
    13  ly.
    14    § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as
    15  amended  by  chapter  191  of  the  laws  of 1991, is amended to read as
    16  follows:
    17    2. Registration of vehicles owned by severely  disabled  persons.  The
    18  commissioner  shall  assign to such motor vehicles, including any van or
    19  pick-up truck used for transporting persons with disabilities  which  is
    20  not  used  for commercial purposes, owned by such persons, a distinctive
    21  number and issue and deliver in such  manner  as  the  commissioner  may
    22  select to the owner a certification of registration, in such form as the
    23  commissioner  shall prescribe and two number plates per vehicle owned by
    24  such persons, called disabled person plates. Said disabled person plates
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05375-01-7

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     1  shall conform to the requirements of section four hundred  one  of  this
     2  chapter,  but  shall  bear  distinctive  marks  to distinguish them from
     3  number plates to be issued to other persons, qualifying under this chap-
     4  ter.  The  commissioner, in his discretion, may issue, for any registra-
     5  tion year, [only one plate as] a set of disabled person plates  for  [a]
     6  each  motor vehicle[, in which event a set of disabled person plates for
     7  a motor vehicle shall consist of  one  plate]  owned  by  such  disabled
     8  person.  Where a severely disabled person owns more than one vehicle and
     9  such  vehicle or vehicles is or are used by severely disabled members of
    10  the owner's family who reside with the  owner,  the  commissioner  shall
    11  issue one set of plates for each additional vehicle used by such severe-
    12  ly  disabled  person,  provided  that  such user qualifies as a severely
    13  disabled person in the manner required by this section.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    15  have  become  a  law  provided, however, that effective immediately, the
    16  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations  necessary
    17  for  the  implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized
    18  and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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