STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8483 IN SENATE May 9, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 dealer fees for registering a motor vehicle The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows: 3 c. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any dealer in 4 motor vehicles registered pursuant to section four hundred fifteen of 5 this title may charge a person who purchases a vehicle from such dealer 6 a fee for assisting in securing a registration and/or certificate of 7 title for such vehicle, provided the dealer actually performs the 8 service of filing the application for title and/or registration with the 9 commissioner or his or her issuing agent. The fee charged by the dealer 10 may not exceed four hundred ninety-nine dollars. Such fee does not 11 include the fee required to be paid to the department for issuance of 12 the registration or for issuance of a certificate of title, nor shall 13 such fee include the fee charged for the motor vehicle inspection of the 14 vehicle. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 16 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15816-01-8