Bill Text: NY S01037 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that historical vehicles manufactured without a front number plate display area need only display such a plate on the rear of the vehicle.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-10 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01037 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01037-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1037 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 10, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing certain historical motor vehicles to display a number plate only on the rear of the vehicle The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 402 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 109 of the laws of 2005, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (a) No person shall operate, drive or park a motor vehicle on the 5 public highways of this state unless such vehicle shall have a distinc- 6 tive number assigned to it by the commissioner and a set of number 7 plates issued by the commissioner with a number and other identification 8 matter if any, corresponding to that of the certificate of registration 9 conspicuously displayed, one on the front and one on the rear of such 10 vehicle, each securely fastened so as to prevent the same from swinging 11 and placed, whenever reasonably possible, not higher than forty-eight 12 inches and not lower than twelve inches from the ground; provided, 13 however, that in any registration year for which only one number plate 14 is issued, such number plate shall constitute a set of number plates for 15 the time in which such use is authorized, shall be displayed on the rear 16 of the vehicle and none shall be displayed on its front, except in case 17 of a tractor, when such number plate shall be displayed on the front of 18 the vehicle and none shall be displayed on its rear. Provided, further, 19 that for a historical motor vehicle, registered pursuant to paragraph G 20 of subdivision seven of section four hundred one of this article, which 21 was not manufactured with a number plate display area on the front of 22 the vehicle, the number plate shall only be displayed on the rear of 23 such vehicle and none shall be displayed on its front. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 25 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. LBD03940-01-9