Bill Text: NY A02098 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to directing the department of motor vehicles to issue New York drivers' licenses to individuals holding a valid or recently expired driver's license from a Caribbean country.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A02098 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02098-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2098
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  permitting
          the exchange of drivers licenses from certain countries
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 502 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a.  License exchange for certain countries.  (a) Notwithstanding any
     4  provisions of this section, the commissioner shall accept as  valid  for
     5  purposes  of  identification,  age  and  examination  a driver's license
     6  issued from a country listed in paragraph (b) of  this  subdivision  and
     7  shall  issue a license to drive in this state to an individual holding a
     8  license described in paragraph (c) of this subdivision, provided  howev-
     9  er,  the  individual shall be subject to the written examination and the
    10  vision test required by subdivision four of this section.
    11    (b) A drivers license issued by the following countries or territories
    12  shall be valid for  purposes  of  paragraph  (a)  of  this  subdivision:
    13  Anguilla,  Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, Brit-
    14  ish Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curacao,  Dominica,  Dominican
    15  Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Mont-
    16  serrat,  Puerto  Rico,  Saba,  Saint  Barthelemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis,
    17  Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Eusta-
    18  tius, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos  Islands,  and
    19  the Virgin Islands of the United States.
    20    (c)  A  license  issued  by  a country listed in paragraph (b) of this
    21  subdivision shall be accepted for  exchange  if  it:  is  valid  or  has
    22  expired  within  the  past six months; states the date upon which it was
    23  issued and it was issued a minimum of six months prior to  the  date  of
    24  the application; and is not suspended, revoked, lost or stolen.
    25    § 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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