Bill Text: NY A06198 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases penalties for defaced or obstructed license plates; requires a one year suspension.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A06198 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06198-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6198 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing penalties for defaced or obstructed license plates The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 402 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 451 of the laws of 2021, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (b) (i) Number plates shall be kept clean and in a condition so as to 5 be easily readable and shall not be covered by glass or any plastic 6 material. 7 (ii) Number plates shall not be knowingly defaced or covered or coated 8 with any artificial or synthetic material or substance that conceals or 9 obscures such number plates or that distorts a recorded or photographic 10 image of such number plates. 11 (iii) The view of such number plates shall not be obstructed by any 12 part of the vehicle or by anything carried thereon, except for a receiv- 13 er-transmitter issued by a publicly owned tolling facility in connection 14 with electronic toll collection when such receiver-transmitter is 15 affixed to the exterior of a vehicle in accordance with mounting 16 instructions provided by the tolling facility. 17 § 2. Subdivision 8 of section 402 of the vehicle and traffic law, as 18 amended by chapter 451 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as 19 follows: 20 8. A violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not 21 less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, except that a 22 violation of subparagraph (ii) or subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of 23 subdivision one of this section shall [be punishable by a fine of not24less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars] result in a suspen- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09834-03-3A. 6198 2 1 sion of the registration of such vehicle for one year pursuant to subdi- 2 vision four-h of section five hundred ten of this chapter. 3 § 3. Section 510 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a 4 new subdivision 4-h to read as follows: 5 4-h. Suspension of registration for defaced or obscured number plates. 6 Upon the receipt of a notification from a court or an administrative 7 tribunal that an owner of a motor vehicle has violated subparagraph (ii) 8 or (iii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section four hundred two 9 of this chapter, the commissioner or his or her agent shall suspend the 10 registration of the vehicle involved in the violation for a period of 11 one year. Each subsequent violation shall result in an additional one 12 year suspension. During any period of suspension under this subdivision 13 the registered owner of the vehicle shall be prohibited from trans- 14 ferring ownership of such vehicle to any other person and shall also be 15 prohibited from registering any other vehicle. 16 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
