Permits the commissioner of motor vehicles to require any licensed driver to submit to an examination or reexamination prior to his or her normal renewal date upon receipt of a recommendation from a court having jurisdiction of traffic offenses, or the governor or chief magistrate of a state or territory stating that the driver's ability to operate a motor vehicle safely is questionable.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7078--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 17, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to reexamina-
tion of licensees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 506 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. The commissioner may require any licensed driver to submit to an
4 examination or reexamination prior to his or her normal renewal date
5 upon receipt of a recommendation from a court having jurisdiction of
6 traffic offenses, or the governor or chief magistrate of a state or
7 territory stating that the driver's ability to operate a motor vehicle
8 safely is questionable. In reviewing such licensed driver's qualifica-
9 tions to operate a motor vehicle, the commissioner shall only consider
10 the previous ten years of the licensed driver's driving record.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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