Requires motor vehicle safety inspections to include inspection of license plates; provides that if a license plate is illegible for any reason it shall be grounds for such vehicle to fail the safety inspection unless such failure is corrected within thirty days.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7359
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 26, 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 the
inspection of license plates during the required periodic inspection
of motor vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (a) of paragraph 1 of subdivision (c) of
2 section 301 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 444 of
3 the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) A safety inspection shall be made with respect to the brakes;
5 steering mechanism; license plates; wheel alignment; lights, including
6 but not limited to the lights which are designed and placed on a vehicle
7 for the purpose of illuminating the vehicle's license plates; odometer;
8 tire pressure; seat safety belts; shoulder harness safety belts; any
9 window which is composed of, covered by or treated with any material
10 which has a light transmittance of less than seventy percent pursuant to
11 section three hundred seventy-five of this title and such other mech-
12 anisms and equipment as shall be determined by the commissioner to be
13 necessary for proper and safe operations. Such inspection shall also be
14 made with respect to vehicle identification number. Upon inspection, the
15 mileage appearing on the odometer shall be recorded upon the inspection
16 sticker. If a vehicle's license plate is illegible for any reason,
17 including but not limited to, because of tinting, shading, obscuring,
18 altering, modifying or defect it shall be considered grounds for the
19 vehicle to fail the safety inspection provided in this paragraph
20 provided, however, that such failure may be remedied as provided in
21 subdivision (b) of section three hundred four if this article.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
23 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
24 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
25 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
26 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11175-01-9
