Bill Text: NY A10334 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows for additional or relocated motor vehicle dealers to be located within six or ten miles of one another when separated by the Hudson River.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-29 - referred to transportation [A10334 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10334-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10334

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing
          additional or relocated motor vehicle dealers to be located within six
          or ten miles of one another when separated by the Hudson River

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  15 of section 462 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as added by chapter 490 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    15. "Relevant market area" means:
     5    (a) if the proposed additional or relocated motor vehicle dealer is to
     6  be  located  in  a  county  having a population in excess of one hundred
     7  thousand, the area within the radius of six miles of the  intended  site
     8  of  the  proposed  or  relocated dealer. Such six mile distance shall be
     9  determined by measuring the distance between the nearest surveyed bound-
    10  ary of the existing new motor vehicle dealer's principal place of  busi-
    11  ness and the nearest surveyed boundary line of the proposed or relocated
    12  new motor vehicle dealer's place of business; [or]
    13    (b) if the proposed additional or relocated motor vehicle dealer is to
    14  be  within  a  county having a population of less than one hundred thou-
    15  sand, the area within the radius of ten miles of the  intended  site  of
    16  the proposed or relocated dealer. Such ten mile distance shall be deter-
    17  mined  by  measuring  the distance between the nearest surveyed boundary
    18  line of the existing new motor vehicle dealer's principal place of busi-
    19  ness and the nearest surveyed boundary line of the proposed or relocated
    20  new motor vehicle dealer's principal place of business[.]; or
    21    (c) notwithstanding paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subdivision, if the
    22  proposed additional or relocated motor vehicle dealer's relevant  market
    23  area under paragraphs (a) or (b) of this subdivision includes the Hudson
    24  River, the area within ten miles of the intended site of the proposed or
    25  relocated  dealer  on  the  opposite side of the Hudson River.  Such ten
    26  mile distance shall be determined by measuring the shortest  distance  a
    27  vehicle  could  travel on roadways from the nearest surveyed boundary of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15249-01-0

        A. 10334                            2

     1  the existing new motor vehicle dealer's principal place of business  and
     2  the  nearest  surveyed  boundary  line  of the proposed or relocated new
     3  motor vehicle dealer's place of business.
     4    In  determining  the population of a county, the most recent census by
     5  the U.S. Bureau of Census or the most recent population  update,  either
     6  from  the National Planning Data Corporation or other similar recognized
     7  source, shall be used.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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