Bill Text: NY A04676 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that a person seventy years of age or older shall be permitted to apply for a driver's license with a two year period of validity, and that the fee for such license shall be based on the two year period.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to transportation [A04676 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A04676-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________
                                         4676
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 7, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M. of A. WALTER, MONTESANO, FINCH, CORWIN -- Multi-Spon-
         sored by -- M. of A.  ARROYO, CROUCH -- read once and referred to  the
         Committee on Transportation
       AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to duration of
         renewal of license in certain cases
         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 503 of the vehicle and traffic law
    2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
    3    (C) WHENEVER THE COMMISSIONER HAS DETERMINED THAT THE PERIOD OF VALID-
    4  ITY FOR A DRIVER'S LICENSE SHALL BE MORE THAN TWO YEARS, A PERSON SEVEN-
    5  TY  YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER SHALL BE PERMITTED TO APPLY FOR A LICENSE WITH
    6  A PERIOD OF VALIDITY OF TWO YEARS AND THE FEE FOR SUCH LICENSE SHALL  BE
    7  BASED ON SUCH TWO YEAR DURATION.
    8    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    9  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07511-01-3
feedback