Removes the requirement of a disability for family members for the issuance of additional disabled person plates to family members of a severely disabled person.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9154
IN SENATE
February 6, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. ROLISON -- 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 the issuance
of license plates for vehicles owned by severely disabled persons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 191 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 2. Registration of vehicles owned by severely disabled persons. The
5 commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicles, including any van or
6 pick-up truck used for transporting persons with disabilities which is
7 not used for commercial purposes, owned by such persons, a distinctive
8 number and issue and deliver in such manner as the commissioner may
9 select to the owner a certification of registration, in such form as the
10 commissioner shall prescribe and two number plates, called disabled
11 person plates. Said disabled person plates shall conform to the require-
12 ments of section four hundred one of this [chapter] article, but shall
13 bear distinctive marks to distinguish them from number plates to be
14 issued to other persons, qualifying under this chapter. The commission-
15 er, in [his] their discretion, may issue, for any registration year,
16 only one plate as a set for a motor vehicle, in which event a set of
17 disabled person plates for a motor vehicle shall consist of one plate.
18 Where a severely disabled person owns more than one vehicle and such
19 vehicle or vehicles is or are used by [severely disabled] members of the
20 owner's family who reside with the owner, the commissioner shall issue
21 one set of plates for each additional vehicle used by such severely
22 disabled person[, provided that such user qualifies as a severely disa-
23 bled person in the manner required by this section] or by family members
24 of the severely disabled person to transport the severely disabled
25 person.
26 § 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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