Bill Text: NY S05727 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for the suspension of a vehicle registration after a third school bus safety camera violation for overtaking and passing a stopped school bus.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S05727 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05727-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5727 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 13, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 suspending a registration after a third violation for overtaking and passing a stopped school bus The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 5-a of section 401 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as relettered by chapter 487 of the laws of 1993, 3 is relettered paragraph d and a new paragraph c is added to read as 4 follows: 5 c. Upon determination that a registrant was liable in accordance with 6 section eleven hundred seventy-four-a of this chapter for a third 7 violation of section eleven hundred seventy-four of this chapter within 8 an eighteen month period, the commissioner or his or her agent shall 9 thereupon suspend the registrant's registration for a period of six 10 months, and shall deny any registration or renewal applications for any 11 other motor vehicle registered in the name of the applicant where the 12 commissioner has determined that such registrant's intent has been to 13 evade the purposes of this subdivision and where the commissioner has 14 reasonable grounds to believe that such registration or renewal will 15 have the effect of defeating the purposes of this subdivision. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after a chapter 17 of the laws of 2019 amending the vehicle and traffic law relating to 18 school bus safety cameras and owner liability for operator illegally 19 overtaking or passing a school bus, as proposed in legislative bill 20 numbers S.4524-B and A.4950-B takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11667-01-9