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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8016
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 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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