Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or offer for sale of a decorative or facsimile license plate of a size, shape, color and design which is substantially similar to a license plate issued by the department of motor vehicles, such that such decorative or facsimile license plate appears to be a license plate issued by the department of motor vehicles.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4129
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH, SHIMSKY, GLICK, GIGLIO, DeSTEFANO -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting
the manufacture, sale, or offer for sale of a decorative or facsimile
license plate that is substantially similar to a license plate issued
by the department of motor vehicles
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 402-a of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by chapter 224 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. No person shall manufacture, sell, or offer for sale a decorative
5 or facsimile license plate of a size, shape, color and design which is
6 [identical with] substantially similar to the size, shape, color and
7 design of license plates issued by the department, such that such deco-
8 rative or facsimile license plate visually appears to be a license plate
9 issued by the department.
10 § 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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