STATE OF NEW YORK
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6746
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
September 25, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the payment
of charges for the issuance of license plates
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 3 of section 401 of the vehicle
2 and traffic law, as amended by section 1 of part H of chapter 59 of the
3 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
4 a. Upon filing of such application and the payment of the fee herein-
5 after provided, the commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicle a
6 distinctive number and, without expense to the applicant, issue and
7 deliver in such manner as the commissioner may select to the owner a
8 certificate of registration, in such form as the commissioner shall
9 prescribe, and two number plates at a place within the state of New York
10 named by the applicant in his or her application. A number plate, within
11 the meaning of this chapter, may, in the discretion of the commissioner,
12 be a plate of a permanent nature, treated with reflectorized material
13 according to specifications prescribed by the commissioner, and with a
14 date tag attached to such plate or to the vehicle as prescribed by regu-
15 lations of the commissioner indicating the validity of the plate during
16 a certain period and the issuance of such a number plate with such date
17 tag to a person possessing such a number plate shall be deemed the issu-
18 ance of a number plate. An additional fee, not to exceed [twenty-five
19 dollars] one dollar and fifty cents above the actual cost of the plates,
20 rounded to the nearest twenty-five cents, shall be paid to the commis-
21 sioner whenever a set of reflectorized number plates is issued for any
22 vehicle for which a registration fee is normally charged except that,
23 with respect to any number plate which is specifically requested by the
24 applicant, such fee shall be paid to the commissioner upon approval of
25 such request. In the event of the loss, mutilation or destruction of any
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 certificate of registration, any number plate or set of number plates
2 whether with or without a date tag or tags, or any date tag or set of
3 date tags provided for in this article, the owner of a registered motor
4 vehicle may file such statement and proof of the facts as the commis-
5 sioner shall require, with a fee of three dollars, in the office of the
6 commissioner, or, unless and until the commissioner shall otherwise
7 direct, in the office of the agent who issued the certificate, plate,
8 plates, tag or tags and the commissioner or his or her agent, as the
9 case may be, shall issue a duplicate or substitute. It shall be the duty
10 of every owner holding a certificate of registration to notify the
11 commissioner in writing of any change of residence of such person within
12 ten days after such change occurs, and to inscribe on such certificate,
13 in the place provided by the commissioner, a record of such change of
14 residence.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
16 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
17 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
18 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
19 authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.