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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8506
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
September 12, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
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 Section 392-a of the vehicle and traffic law is REPEALED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.
