STATE OF NEW YORK
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1037
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
certain historical motor vehicles to display a number plate only on
the rear of the vehicle
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 402 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 109 of the laws of 2005, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) No person shall operate, drive or park a motor vehicle on the
5 public highways of this state unless such vehicle shall have a distinc-
6 tive number assigned to it by the commissioner and a set of number
7 plates issued by the commissioner with a number and other identification
8 matter if any, corresponding to that of the certificate of registration
9 conspicuously displayed, one on the front and one on the rear of such
10 vehicle, each securely fastened so as to prevent the same from swinging
11 and placed, whenever reasonably possible, not higher than forty-eight
12 inches and not lower than twelve inches from the ground; provided,
13 however, that in any registration year for which only one number plate
14 is issued, such number plate shall constitute a set of number plates for
15 the time in which such use is authorized, shall be displayed on the rear
16 of the vehicle and none shall be displayed on its front, except in case
17 of a tractor, when such number plate shall be displayed on the front of
18 the vehicle and none shall be displayed on its rear. Provided, further,
19 that for a historical motor vehicle, registered pursuant to paragraph G
20 of subdivision seven of section four hundred one of this article, which
21 was not manufactured with a number plate display area on the front of
22 the vehicle, the number plate shall only be displayed on the rear of
23 such vehicle and none shall be displayed on its front.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
25 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03940-01-9
