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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7689--A
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 30, 2013
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GANTT -- (at request of the Department of Motor
          Vehicles) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
          -- reported and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
 

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to sanctions
          for credit card charge backs on motor vehicle 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 and credit card
     4  payments.  (a) A thirty-five dollar penalty fee shall be charged to  any
     5  person who has submitted a check to the commissioner or his or her agent
     6  as  payment for any license, permit or registration or any other type of
     7  fee for any type of transaction as required by  this  chapter  and  such
     8  check  has  been  dishonored.  Such  thirty-five dollar penalty shall be

     9  added to the amount due to the commissioner. In  addition,  any  or  all
    10  licenses, permits or registrations issued in the name of such person may
    11  be suspended and, if a suspension has been issued, any other transaction
    12  in  the name of such person with this department may be prohibited until
    13  full satisfaction of the amount due to the commissioner and the  thirty-
    14  five  dollar penalty fee is paid to the commissioner. No such suspension
    15  shall be issued until thirty days after notification that the check  has
    16  been dishonored is mailed to such person. If satisfaction is made within
    17  thirty days from the date of mailing of such notification, no suspension
    18  shall  be issued.  (b) In any case where a person has made a credit card
    19  payment to the commissioner or his or  her  agent  as  payment  for  any

    20  license, permit or registration or any other type of fee for any type of
    21  transaction as required by this chapter, and such credit card payment is
    22  contested and is not honored by the credit card company, any other tran-
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09092-03-3
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     1  saction  in the name of such person with the department may be prohibit-
     2  ed, upon at least thirty days notice, until  full  satisfaction  of  the
     3  amount due to the commissioner has been paid.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after

     5  it  shall  have become a law and shall apply to all payments received on
     6  or after such date.