Bill Text: NY A00411 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases penalties for purposefully obstructed license plates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-24 - reported referred to codes [A00411 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00411-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 411 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to penalties for purposefully obstructed license plates 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 1 and subdivision 8 of section 2 402 of the vehicle and traffic law, paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 as 3 amended by chapter 109 of the laws of 2005, and subdivision 8 as amended 4 by chapter 61 of the laws of 1989 and as renumbered by chapter 648 of 5 the laws of 2006, are amended to read as follows: 6 (b) (i) Number plates shall be kept clean and in a condition so as to 7 be easily readable and shall not be covered by glass or any plastic 8 material[, and]. 9 (ii) Number plates shall not be knowingly covered or coated with any 10 artificial or synthetic material or substance that conceals or obscures 11 such number plates or that distorts a recorded or photographic image of 12 such number plates[, and the]. 13 (iii) The view of such number plates shall not be obstructed by any 14 part of the vehicle or by anything carried thereon, except for a receiv- 15 er-transmitter issued by a publicly owned tolling facility in connection 16 with electronic toll collection when such receiver-transmitter is 17 affixed to the exterior of a vehicle in accordance with mounting 18 instructions provided by the tolling facility. 19 8. [The] A violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of 20 not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, except that 21 a violation of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision one of 22 this section shall be punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five 23 nor more than three hundred dollars. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 25 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03062-01-7