STATE OF NEW YORK
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8009
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 4, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. MOYA -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to penalties
for unregistered dealers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph c of subdivision 16 of
2 section 415 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 7 of
3 the laws of 2000, is amended and a new subparagraph (iii) is added to
4 read as follows:
5 (ii) Any person who operates as a dealer without being registered as
6 required by subdivision three of this section who has previously had a
7 civil penalty assessed for unregistered operation shall pay to the
8 people of this state a civil penalty in the sum of one thousand dollars.
9 Any person who operates as a dealer without being registered as required
10 by subdivision three of this section who has had two previous civil
11 penalties assessed for unregistered operation not arising from the same
12 incident all of which were committed within a period of thirty months
13 shall pay to the people of this state a civil penalty in the sum of four
14 thousand ten dollars. Such civil [penalty] penalties may not be avoided.
15 (iii) No person who operates as a dealer without being registered as
16 required by subdivision three of this section or while his or her regis-
17 tration is revoked or suspended shall park a motor vehicle, which he or
18 she owns or controls and holds for sale or demonstration, upon a public
19 highway of this state without first being registered in accordance with
20 the provisions of section four hundred one of this chapter. Any such
21 person shall, in addition to any penalties imposed pursuant to paragraph
22 b of this subdivision or subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, be
23 required to pay to the people of this state an additional civil penalty
24 of three hundred dollars for each motor vehicle owned or controlled and
25 held for sale or demonstration by such person which is parked upon the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 public highways of this state without first being registered in accord-
2 ance with the provisions of section four hundred one of this chapter.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
4 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
