Provides for fines and/or imprisonment for a person who knowingly sells, offers to sell, buys, or offers to buy a false, fraudulent, or stolen license, identification card, certificate of registration, or number plate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9122
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 26, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GRAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to certain
motor vehicle documents and plates; and to repeal certain provisions
of such law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 392-a of the vehicle and traffic law is REPEALED
2 and a new section 392-a is added to read as follows:
3 § 392-a. Fraudulent motor vehicle documents and plates. 1. A person
4 who knowingly sells, offers to sell, buys, or offers to buy a false,
5 fraudulent, or stolen license, identification card, certificate of
6 registration, or number plate shall be guilty of:
7 (a) First Offense: A Class E felony, punishable by up to one year of
8 imprisonment and a fine of no less than five hundred dollars; and
9 (b) Second Offense Within Ten Years: A Class D felony, punishable by
10 one to three years of imprisonment, a fine of no less than one thousand
11 dollars, and a suspension of the offender's driver's license for a peri-
12 od of no less than one year.
13 2. Any person whose driver's license or registration is suspended or
14 revoked and who knowingly uses, displays, or permits the use of a false,
15 fraudulent, or stolen number plate shall be guilty of a Class D felony,
16 punishable by:
17 (a) One to three years of imprisonment;
18 (b) A fine of no less than one thousand five hundred dollars; and
19 (c) An automatic extension of the suspension period for an additional
20 two to four years.
21 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 402 of the vehicle and traffic law is
22 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
23 (c) A second conviction for violating paragraph (ii), (ii-a), or (iii)
24 of paragraph (b) of this subdivision, committed within ten years of a
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 first conviction, shall be punishable by a fine of not less than five
2 hundred dollars and by the suspension of the offender's driver's license
3 for a period of six months.
4 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
5 have become a law.
