Requires vehicle inspections to include a visual inspection of license plates to determine whether a license plate is delaminated, otherwise damaged or worn to be considered illegible, constituting grounds for failure of the inspection.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7008
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 3, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 visual
inspection of license plates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 301 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
3 (4) Such inspection shall also include a visual inspection of the
4 license plates. Whenever a license plate shall have become so delami-
5 nated, or otherwise damaged or worn as to become illegible, such license
6 plate shall not meet the proper and safe condition requirements of
7 subdivision (a) of section three hundred four of this article. A
8 license plate will be deemed to be illegible when at least one of the
9 license plate's numbers or letters cannot be read because (a) more than
10 one-third of a number or letter lacks color due to delamination or other
11 damage, including fading, or (b) the license plate is missing one or
12 more pieces and such piece or pieces include more than one-third of a
13 number or letter.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13590-03-7
