Bill Text: NY S08322 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the sale of covered license plate frames; defines a covered license plate frame to mean any glass or plastic material, artificial or synthetic material or substance that conceals or obscures a license plate or that distorts a recorded or photographic image of such license plate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-18 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S08322 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08322-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8322

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 18, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the
          sale of covered license plate frames

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  391-uu to read as follows:
     3    §  391-uu.  Sale  or promotional distribution of covered license plate
     4  frames. 1.  No  person,  firm,  corporation,  partnership,  association,
     5  limited  liability  company, or other entity shall sell or offer to sell
     6  or give away, as either a  retail  or  wholesale  promotion,  a  covered
     7  license plate frame within New York state.
     8    2.  For  purposes of this section, "covered license plate frame" means
     9  any glass or plastic  material,  artificial  or  synthetic  material  or
    10  substance  that  conceals or obscures a license plate or that distorts a
    11  recorded or photographic image of such license plate.
    12    3. Any person, firm, corporation,  partnership,  association,  limited
    13  liability  company, or other entity that violates the provisions of this
    14  section by selling, offering to sell, or giving away as either a  retail
    15  or  wholesale  promotion, a covered license plate frame shall be subject
    16  to a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars per  violation,
    17  recoverable  in an action by any enforcement authority designated by any
    18  municipality or political subdivision.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08827-01-3