Bill Text: NY S06744 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that license plates be inspected during vehicle safety inspections and waives fees for the issuance of certain license plates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06744 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06744-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6744

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 25, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. TEDISCO -- 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
          that license plates be inspected during safety inspections and waiving
          fees for the issuance of certain license plates

          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)  A safety inspection shall also include a visual inspection of the
     4  vehicle's license plates. Whenever a license plate shall have become  so
     5  delaminated,  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 shall 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 but not limited to fading; or (b) the license plate is
    12  missing  one  or more pieces and such piece or pieces includes more than
    13  one-third of a number or letter. The inclusion of the visual  inspection
    14  of  a  vehicle's license plates in the safety inspection pursuant to the
    15  provisions of this paragraph shall not result  in  an  increase  in  the
    16  safety inspection fee allowed to be charged.
    17    §  2.  Subdivision  3 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law is
    18  amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:
    19    e. The commissioner shall waive the payment of fees required by  para-
    20  graph a of this subdivision if the number license plates applied for are
    21  required  due  to  a  change  in license plate design, or if replacement
    22  license plates are required as the result of a failed inspection of  the
    23  license  plates  as  described  in  paragraph four of subdivision (c) of
    24  section three hundred one of this chapter. In both cases the owner hold-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 6744                             2

     1  ing the certificate of  registration  shall  be  entitled  to  the  same
     2  license plate number at no additional cost.
     3    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     4  it  shall have become a law.  Effective immediately the addition, amend-
     5  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     6  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
     7  completed on or before such date.