STATE OF NEW YORK
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5729
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 13, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
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 5 to read as follows:
3 5. 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 158 of the laws of 2012, 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; [and] (b) the registration of making,
17 amending, or revoking an anatomical gift under section forty-three
18 hundred ten of the public health law; and (c) whenever a loss in
19 connection with a private automobile is determined by an insurer to be a
20 total loss or constructive total loss under section thirty-four hundred
21 twelve of the insurance law, for the purpose of transferring a salvage
22 certificate of title and the execution of an odometer and disclosure
23 statement in connection with such title, the electronic execution of a
24 power of attorney shall be permissible provided that signature is
25 authenticated.
26 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11522-01-9
