Permits the electronic execution of a power of attorney for the purpose of transferring a salvage certificate of title and the execution of an odometer and disclosure statement.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3542--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general obligations law and the state technology
law, in relation to electronic signatures and salvage title
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 5-1501B of the general obligations law is amended
2 by adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. Nothing in this title shall prohibit the execution of a valid power
4 of attorney for the purpose of transferring a salvage certificate of
5 title and the execution of an odometer and damage disclosure statement
6 in connection with such title by electronic means pursuant to article
7 three of the state technology law.
8 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 307 of the state technology law, as
9 amended by chapter 222 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
10 follows:
11 1. To any document providing for the disposition of an individual's
12 person or property upon death or incompetence, or appointing a fiduciary
13 of an individual's person or property, including, without limitation,
14 wills, trusts, decisions consenting to orders not to resuscitate, powers
15 of attorney and health care proxies, with the exception of: (a) contrac-
16 tual beneficiary designations; (b) the registration of making, amending,
17 or revoking an anatomical gift under section forty-three hundred ten of
18 the public health law; [and] (c) documents and forms authorizing or
19 accepting funeral, cemetery and cremation services[.]; and (d) the
20 execution of a valid power of attorney for the purpose of transferring
21 a salvage certificate of title and the execution of an odometer and
22 damage disclosure statement in connection with such title whenever a
23 loss in connection with a private automobile is determined by an insurer
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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S. 3542--A 2
1 to be a total loss or constructive total loss under section three thou-
2 sand four hundred twelve of the insurance law.
3 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
