Bill Text: NY A04323 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that historical motor vehicles need only pay a registration fee upon initial registration and no registration renewal or further fee shall be required until sold or otherwise transferred; raises such fee from $28 to $100.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to transportation [A04323 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A04323-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4323
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 3, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  permanent
         registration of historical motor vehicles
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Schedule G of subdivision 7 of section 401 of  the  vehicle
    2  and traffic law, as amended by section 25 of part G of chapter 59 of the
    3  laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
    4    G.  Schedule  for  historical  motor  vehicles. For each motor vehicle
    5  which is owned and operated as an exhibition piece or  collectors  item,
    6  and  is  used  for  participation  in  club  activities, exhibit, tours,
    7  parades, occasional transportation and similar uses, but  not  used  for
    8  general  daily  transportation,  [an annual] A fee of [twenty-eight] ONE
    9  HUNDRED dollars [and seventy-five cents] UPON  INITIAL  REGISTRATION  OF
   10  SUCH  VEHICLE.  SUCH  HISTORICAL  MOTOR  VEHICLE SHALL REMAIN REGISTERED
   11  WITHOUT THE IMPOSITION OF ANY OTHER FEE UNTIL SUCH TIME AS  THE  VEHICLE
   12  IS  SOLD  OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, AT WHICH TIME A NEW REGISTRATION AND
   13  FEE SHALL BE REQUIRED.   For purposes of this  paragraph,  a  historical
   14  motor  vehicle shall mean any vehicle manufactured more than twenty-five
   15  years prior to the current calendar year, and any other model, year  and
   16  type vehicle which has unique characteristics and which is determined by
   17  the  commissioner  to  be  of  historical,  classic or exhibition value.
   18  Registration plates for such vehicles shall be  of  a  type  and  design
   19  approved  by  the  commissioner,  but  shall be of a distinctive nature.
   20  Except that, with the approval of the commissioner, an owner of any such
   21  vehicle may utilize registration plates issued in the year corresponding
   22  to the model year date in which the vehicle  was  manufactured,  if  the
   23  registration  plate is legible, durable, and serviceable, of this state,
   24  and accurate in color, as determined by the department. Nothing in  this
   25  paragraph  shall  be  construed to prohibit the use of previously issued
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07458-01-1
       A. 4323                             2
    1  registration plates that have  been  restored,  without  deviation  from
    2  their  original  alphanumeric or pictorial content, to such condition as
    3  otherwise satisfies all applicable requirements. Such  plates  shall  be
    4  used only for the operation of the motor vehicle listed on the registra-
    5  tion  application  and  on  other motor vehicles which would qualify for
    6  registration under this schedule owned by persons other than the  regis-
    7  trant  for  the  purpose of test driving by the registrant or his or her
    8  agent in anticipation of possible purchase. No such registration will be
    9  issued unless evidence of financial security, in a  form  prescribed  by
   10  the  commissioner,  is  submitted  which provides coverage for the motor
   11  vehicle listed on the registration application and for  non-owned  motor
   12  vehicles being operated with such plates.
   13    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   14  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
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