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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1345
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 5, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
 
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  dishonored
          check fees
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-

        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 202-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as  added  by
     2  chapter 190 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 202-b. Penalties  for submission of dishonored checks. A thirty-five
     4  dollar penalty fee shall be charged to any person who  has  submitted  a
     5  check  to  the  commissioner  or  his  or  her  agent as payment for any
     6  license, permit or registration or any other type of fee for any type of
     7  transaction as required by this chapter and such check has been  dishon-
     8  ored.  Such  thirty-five dollar penalty shall be added to the amount due
     9  to the commissioner. In addition,  [any  or  all  licenses,  permits  or
    10  registrations] the license, permit or registration issued in the name of

    11  such person for which such check was submitted may be suspended [and, if
    12  a  suspension has been issued, any other transaction in the name of such
    13  person with this department may be prohibited] until  full  satisfaction
    14  of the amount due to the commissioner and the thirty-five dollar penalty
    15  fee  is  paid  to  the  commissioner. No such suspension shall be issued
    16  until thirty days after  notification  that  the  check  that  has  been
    17  dishonored  is  mailed  to  such  person. If satisfaction is made within
    18  thirty days from the date of mailing of such notification, no suspension
    19  shall be issued.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    21  have become a law.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03207-01-1