Bill Text: NY S06672 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires license plates be inspected during safety inspections and prevents license plates from being replaced under certain circumstances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06672 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06672-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6672

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          license  plates  be inspected during safety inspections and preventing
          license plates from being replaced in certain circumstances

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision (c) of section 301 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
     3    (4) Such inspection shall also include  a  visual  inspection  of  the
     4  license  plates.  Whenever a license  plate shall have become so delami-
     5  nated, or otherwise  damaged  or  worn  as  to  become  illegible,  such
     6  license  plate shall not meet the proper and safe condition requirements
     7  of subdivision (a) of section   three hundred four of  this  article.  A
     8  license  plate  will  be deemed to be illegible when at least one of the
     9  license plate's numbers or letters cannot be read because (a) more  than
    10  one-third of a number or letter lacks color due to delamination or other
    11  damage,  including  fading,  or  (b) the license plate is missing one or
    12  more pieces and such piece or pieces include more than  one-third  of  a
    13  number or letter.
    14    §  2.  Subdivision  3 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law is
    15  amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:
    16    e. The commissioner shall not require the replacement of reflectorized
    17  number plates issued for any vehicle where:  (i) the  plates  previously
    18  issued  for  such  vehicle  meet  the requirements to pass an inspection
    19  under paragraph four of subdivision (c) of section three hundred one  of
    20  this  chapter;  and  (ii) the replacement plates being issued are to the
    21  same registered owner and vehicle as previously issued plates.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2020.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13677-02-9