Establishes a $25 annual supplemental motor vehicle registration fee for counties outside the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District; dedicates the revenue to upstate public transportation systems.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10431
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to imposing a
supplemental registration fee for counties outside of the metropolitan
commuter transportation district
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 article 17-D to read as follows:
3 ARTICLE 17-D
4 SUPPLEMENTAL REGISTRATION FEE FOR COUNTIES OUTSIDE
5 THE METROPOLITAN COMMUTER TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT
6 Section 499-e. Definition.
7 499-f. Upstate transit supplemental registration fee.
8 499-g. Collection of supplemental fee.
9 499-h. Calculation of supplemental registration fee.
10 499-i. Deposit and disposition of revenue from the upstate tran-
11 sit supplemental fee.
12 § 499-e. Definition. For the purposes of this article "upstate" shall
13 mean the area of the state outside in the district created and governed
14 by section twelve hundred sixty-two of the public authorities law.
15 § 499-f. Upstate transit supplemental registration fee. Registrants
16 residing in counties outside the metropolitan commuter transportation
17 district shall upon the registration or renewal of a motor vehicle be
18 charged a supplemental registration fee to be paid to the commissioner
19 or such commissioner's agent in accordance with the provisions of this
20 article.
21 § 499-g. Collection of supplemental fee. All registrants of motor
22 vehicles who reside outside the metropolitan commuter transportation
23 district shall pay to the commissioner or such commissioner's agent the
24 supplemental registration fee provided for in this article upon regis-
25 tration or renewal of motor vehicles subject to registration fees pursu-
26 ant to the following sections of this title: paragraph a of subdivision
27 six of section four hundred one of this title; schedules A, B, C, E, F,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 G, I and K of subdivision seven of section four hundred one of this
2 title; paragraph a of subdivision eight of section four hundred one of
3 this title; paragraph a of subdivision five of section four hundred ten
4 of this title; and section four hundred eleven-b of this title.
5 § 499-h. Calculation of supplemental registration fee. The supple-
6 mental registration fee to be charged pursuant to section four hundred
7 ninety-nine-f of this article, shall be calculated at a rate of twenty-
8 five dollars per annum for each year or portion of a year that such
9 registration is valid.
10 § 499-i. Deposit and disposition of revenue from the upstate transit
11 supplemental fee. The commissioner shall deposit daily all funds
12 collected pursuant to this article with responsible banks, banking hous-
13 es and trust companies as designated by the state comptroller, in trust
14 for credit of the public transportation systems operating assistance
15 account established by section eighty-eight-a of the state finance law.
16 Such deposits shall be kept separate and apart from all other money in
17 the possession of the comptroller. On or before the twelfth day of each
18 month, the commissioner shall certify to the comptroller the amount of
19 all revenues received pursuant to this paragraph during the prior month
20 as a result of the supplemental fees imposed, including any interest and
21 penalties thereon. The revenues so certified over the prior three months
22 in total shall be paid over by the fifteenth day of the last month of
23 each calendar quarter from such account, without appropriation, into the
24 public transportation systems operating assistance account established
25 by section eighty-eight-a of the state finance law.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
