STATE OF NEW YORK
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6418
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. TOWNS, GIBSON, SPANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. BOYLAND -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transpor-
tation
AN ACT to amend the New York state defense emergency act, in relation to
driver's license renewals for spouses and children of persons in mili-
tary service
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 116 of chapter 784 of the laws of
2 1951, constituting the New York state defense emergency act, as amended
3 by chapter 780 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
4 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a license to drive,
5 issued pursuant to the provisions of article nineteen of the vehicle and
6 traffic law, which would expire prior to either of the dates set forth
7 in this subdivision, of any person, or any spouse or child of such
8 person, who was in military service on or after June twenty-fifth, nine-
9 teen hundred fifty, or who thereafter shall have entered military
10 service, shall expire six months from [either the expiration date of
11 this act or] the [holder's] enlisted person's separation from service[,
12 whichever occurs first]. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivi-
13 sion, the commissioner of motor vehicles may refuse to renew the expired
14 driver's license of any person who has failed to notify the commissioner
15 of [his] such entry into military service.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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