Requires a person to provide his or her expired state ID card upon application for renewal of such card; imposes a surcharge of fifty dollars for any person who is unable to present such card at the time of renewal application and who also does not have a police report indicating that such card was stolen.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 14, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to renewal of
drivers' licenses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Title 4 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
2 a new article 17-C to read as follows:
3 ARTICLE 17-C
4 RENEWAL OF STATE IDENTIFICATION CARDS
5 Section 499. Renewal of state identification cards.
6 § 499. Renewal of state identification cards. 1. Whenever any person
7 applies for a renewal of a state identification card issued under this
8 title, whether it be a driver's license, a driver's permit, a non-
9 driver's identification card, or any other form of identification issued
10 by the department, the person so applying for the renewal must present
11 his or her expired identification card to the department.
12 2. If the person applying for the renewal of a state identification
13 card seeks to retain his or her expired identification card, the depart-
14 ment shall mark the card in such a way that is visible, permanent, and
15 informs any person looking at the card that such card is invalid.
16 3. If a person is unable to produce his or her expired identification
17 card upon his or her application for renewal of such card, then that
18 person must either: (a) provide a copy of a police report stating that
19 such identification card was stolen, or (b) pay a renewal surcharge in
20 an amount of fifty dollars.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
22 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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