STATE OF NEW YORK
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617
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, PARKER -- 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 requiring
that all for-hire vehicles have New York state license plates in order
to receive a New York state inspection
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (b) of section 301 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law is amended to read as follows:
3 (b) (1) The commissioner shall also require the inspection of any
4 motor vehicle duly registered under the laws of another state, a prov-
5 ince of Canada, a territory or a federal district to the extent to which
6 such state, province, territory or federal district requires the
7 inspection of motor vehicles duly registered under the laws of this
8 state; provided, however, that a motor vehicle used to carry passengers
9 for hire in for-hire vans and buses greater than nine passengers capaci-
10 ty have New York state issued license plates to receive a New York State
11 DOT inspection a for-hire vehicle service under an authorization issued
12 by a municipality shall not be inspected in accordance with the
13 provisions of this section unless such motor vehicle used to carry
14 passengers for hire in a for-hire vehicle is duly registered under the
15 laws of this state.
16 (2) For the purposes of this paragraph, the following terms shall have
17 the following meanings:
18 (A) "for-hire vehicle" shall mean a motor vehicle carrying passengers
19 for hire in the city, with a seating capacity of twenty-four passengers
20 or less, not including the driver; and
21 (B) "seating capacity" shall include any plain view location which is
22 capable of accommodating a normal adult as part of an overall seat
23 configuration and design and is likely to be used as a seating position
24 while the vehicle is in motion.
25 § 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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