Relates to the method of informing vehicle registrants of the process for information deletion; requires an insert on the department website and on vehicle registration forms.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7215
IN SENATE
January 4, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. JACOBS -- 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 method
of informing vehicle registrants of the process for information
deletion
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 202 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 293 of the laws of 1989, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (b) The commissioner shall notify each vehicle registrant that the
5 registration information specified in paragraph (a) of this subdivision
6 has been or will be furnished to the contracting party. The commissioner
7 shall inform each vehicle registrant, by inserting a prominently
8 displayed disclosure on the department's main web page, and on all vehi-
9 cle registration forms, when such registrant first makes application for
10 a vehicle registration or when such registrant applies to renew an
11 existing vehicle registration how to achieve the deletion of such infor-
12 mation from the contracting party's file. The contract between the
13 commissioner and the contracting party shall provide that, upon the
14 request of the registrant made in such manner and in such form as shall
15 be prescribed by the commissioner, such registration information shall
16 be deleted from the contracting party's file for all purposes, except:
17 (i) issuance of manufacturer's warranty, safety recall or similar
18 notices, or (ii) statistical complications.
19 § 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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