Requires department of motor vehicle forms, tests and applications for permits and licenses in a city with a population of one million or more to be available in Punjabi, Bengali and Hindi.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
certain motor vehicle forms and applications to be available in Punja-
bi, Bengali and Hindi
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 502 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
3 8. Forms to be made available in certain foreign languages. Except as
4 otherwise prohibited by federal law, rule or regulation the commissioner
5 shall, within a city having a population of one million or more, ensure
6 that all written tests, forms and applications for an initial learner's
7 permit or driver's license issued pursuant to the provisions of this
8 article are also available in Punjabi, Bengali and Hindi and provide
9 translation and interpretation services in such languages to a person
10 applying for such learner's permit or driver's license in such city,
11 upon his or her request. Nothing contained in this subdivision shall be
12 deemed to prohibit the commissioner from making such tests, forms,
13 applications, and translation and interpretation services available in
14 other languages.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
16 law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00142-01-9
