Provides that persons sixty-five years of age or older shall have the choice of registering their motor vehicle or renewing such registration for a period of one year or two years.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3013
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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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 authorizing
senior citizens to renew motor vehicle registrations annually
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 5 of section 401 of the vehicle
2 and traffic law, as amended by chapter 356 of the laws of 1990, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 c. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the commis-
5 sioner shall issue registrations and renewals of registrations for motor
6 vehicles for which a registration fee established in paragraph a of
7 subdivision six of this section is required to be paid and for motor
8 vehicles having a maximum gross weight of not more than eighteen thou-
9 sand pounds for which a registration fee established in paragraph one of
10 schedule B of subdivision seven of this section is required to be paid
11 for a period of not less than two years provided, however, persons
12 sixty-five years of age or older shall have the choice of registering
13 their motor vehicle or renewing such registration for a period of one
14 year or two years. In addition, the full amount of any other charges,
15 taxes or fees which would be required to be paid to, or collected by,
16 the commissioner during the entire registration period if registrations
17 were issued for twelve month periods shall be paid to the commissioner
18 at the time of such registration or renewal of registration. The commis-
19 sioner shall promulgate rules and regulations for the issuance of regis-
20 tration renewals extended as required in this paragraph. However, such
21 regulations may provide that the initial issuance of extended renewals
22 be accomplished over a two year period. The commissioner may by regu-
23 lation exempt from the provisions of this paragraph registrations for
24 motor vehicles issued in conjunction with any long-term registration
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 program or registration reciprocity or proration agreement which this
2 state has established or to which this state is a party.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of June next succeeding
4 the date on which it shall have become a law.
