STATE OF NEW YORK
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929
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- 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 the issu-
ance, form and expiration of licenses and identification cards for
persons less than twenty-one years of age
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 504 of the vehicle and traffic law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) Every license or renewal thereof issued to a person less than
4 twenty-one years of age shall be portrait or vertical in form and every
5 license or renewal thereof issued to a person twenty-one years of age or
6 over shall be landscape or horizontal in form. In the case of a licensee
7 who is less than twenty-one years of age, the license issued shall
8 contain the date on which the licensee will become twenty-one years of
9 age.
10 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 503 of the vehicle and traffic law is
11 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
12 (c) A license issued pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision one of
13 section five hundred four of this chapter shall expire on the licensee's
14 twenty-first birthday unless otherwise suspended or revoked.
15 § 3. Subdivision 3 of section 490 of the vehicle and traffic law is
16 amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
17 (d) Every identification card or renewal thereof issued to a person
18 less than twenty-one years of age shall be portrait or vertical in form
19 and every identification card or renewal thereof issued to a person
20 twenty-one years of age or over shall be landscape or horizontal in
21 form. In the case of a person who is less than twenty-one years of age,
22 the identification card issued shall contain the date on which the
23 person will become twenty-one years of age.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 4. Subdivision 1 of section 491 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
2 amended by chapter 580 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Period of validity. An identification card shall be valid from the
5 date of issuance until the date of expiration determined by the commis-
6 sioner, except that (a) any person sixty-two years of age or older or
7 (b) any recipient of supplemental security income benefits defined in
8 section two hundred eight of the social services law, shall be eligible
9 for a card which expires ten years after the date of issuance. Such
10 dates of issuance and expiration shall be noted on the identification
11 card. However, the prior identification card shall expire on the date of
12 issuance of a renewal of such prior identification card. The commission-
13 er may extend the period of validity of an identification card in a
14 manner and form prescribed by the commissioner. An identification card
15 issued to a person pursuant to paragraph (d) of subdivision three of
16 section four hundred ninety of this article, shall expire on the
17 person's twenty-first birthday unless otherwise suspended or revoked.
18 § 5. The department of motor vehicles shall make all reasonable
19 efforts to replace licenses and identification cards issued prior to the
20 effective date of this act to persons less than twenty-one years of age
21 within eighteen months of the effective date of this act.
22 § 6. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
23 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
24 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
25 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
26 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such
27 effective date.
