Bill Text: NY S08878 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds a knowing element to certain violations for concealed license plates; increases the fine amounts for certain violations relating to concealed license plates to $75 - $300 for first violation, $75 - $350 for a second violation, and $75 - $400 for the third and any subsequent violations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-22 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S08878 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08878-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8878

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 22, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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  violations
          for concealed license plates

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (b) of  subdivision
     2  1  and  subdivision  8 of section 402 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
     3  amended by chapter 451 of the laws of  2021,  are  amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    (i)  Number  plates shall be kept clean and in a condition so as to be
     6  easily readable [and shall not be covered by glass or any plastic  mate-
     7  rial].
     8    (ii)  Number  plates  shall  not  be knowingly covered by glass or any
     9  plastic material or coated with any artificial or synthetic material  or
    10  substance  that conceals or obscures such number plates or that distorts
    11  a recorded or photographic image of such number plates.
    12    8. A violation of this section shall be punishable by a  fine  of  not
    13  less  than  twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, except that a
    14  violation of subparagraph (ii) or subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of
    15  subdivision one of this section shall be punishable by  a  fine  of  not
    16  less  than [fifty] seventy-five nor more than three hundred dollars upon
    17  conviction of  a    first    violation;  upon  conviction  of  a  second
    18  violation,  both  of  which  were  committed within a period of eighteen
    19  months, such violation shall be punishable by a fine of  not  less  than
    20  seventy-five  nor more than three hundred fifty dollars; upon conviction
    21  of a third or subsequent violation, all of which were committed within a
    22  period of eighteen months, such violation shall be punishable by a  fine
    23  of not less than seventy-five nor more than four hundred dollars.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    25  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05078-04-4