STATE OF NEW YORK
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2584--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Transpor-
tation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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 registration
information
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 202 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 293 of the laws of 1989, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (b) [The commissioner shall notify each vehicle registrant that the
5 registration information specified in paragraph (a) of this subdivision
6 has been or will be furnished to the contracting party. The commissioner
7 shall inform each vehicle registrant when such registrant first makes
8 application for a vehicle registration or when such registrant applies
9 to renew an existing vehicle registration how to achieve the deletion of
10 such information from the contracting party's file.] The contract
11 between the commissioner and the contracting party shall provide that,
12 [upon the request of the registrant made in such manner and in such form
13 as shall be prescribed by the commissioner, such] the registration
14 information specified in paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall be
15 deleted from the contracting party's file for all purposes, except:
16 [(i) issuance of manufacturer's warranty, safety recall or similar
17 notices, or (ii) statistical complications.]
18 (i) issuance of manufacturer's warranty, safety recall or similar
19 notices; or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (ii) for use in research activities, so long as personal information
2 is not published, redisclosed, or used to contact individuals; or
3 (iii) for use in producing statistical reports, so long as personal
4 information is not published, redisclosed, or used to contact individ-
5 uals; or
6 (iv) to remove non-owner records from the original records of motor
7 vehicle manufacturers; or
8 (v) for use by any government agency, including any court or law
9 enforcement agency in carrying out its functions, or any private person
10 or entity acting on behalf of a federal, state, or local agency in
11 carrying out its functions; or
12 (vi) for use in the normal course of business by a legitimate business
13 or its agents, employees, or contractors, but only: (A) to verify the
14 accuracy of personal information submitted by the individual to the
15 business or its agents, employees, or contractors; and (B) if such
16 information as so submitted is not correct or is no longer correct, to
17 obtain the correct information but only for the purposes of preventing
18 fraud by, pursuing legal remedies against, or recovering on a debt or
19 security interest against the individual; or
20 (vii) for use by any insurer or by a self-insured entity, or by an
21 insurance support organization on behalf of any insurer or by a self-in-
22 sured entity, or its agents, employees, or contractors, in connection
23 with motor vehicle claims investigation activities, antifraud activ-
24 ities, rating or underwriting.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall only apply to
26 contracts executed on or after such effective date.
