Bill Text: NY A02715 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Limits the provision permitting the commissioner of motor vehicles to suspend the license or registration of a person whose check is dishonored after presented to such commissioner for payment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - enacting clause stricken [A02715 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02715-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2715 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 25, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to dishonored check fees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 202-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by 2 chapter 236 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 202-b. Penalties for submission of dishonored checks and credit card 4 payments. (a) A thirty-five dollar penalty fee shall be charged to any 5 person who has submitted a check to the commissioner or his or her agent 6 as payment for any license, permit or registration or any other type of 7 fee for any type of transaction as required by this chapter and such 8 check has been dishonored. Such thirty-five dollar penalty shall be 9 added to the amount due to the commissioner. In addition, [any or all10licenses, permits or registrations] the license, permit or registration 11 issued in the name of such person for which such check was submitted may 12 be suspended [and, if a suspension has been issued, any other trans-13action in the name of such person with this department may be prohibit-14ed] until full satisfaction of the amount due to the commissioner and 15 the thirty-five dollar penalty fee is paid to the commissioner. No such 16 suspension shall be issued until thirty days after notification that the 17 check has been dishonored is mailed to such person. If satisfaction is 18 made within thirty days from the date of mailing of such notification, 19 no suspension shall be issued. (b) In any case where a person has made a 20 credit card payment to the commissioner or his or her agent as payment 21 for any license, permit or registration or any other type of fee for any 22 type of transaction as required by this chapter, and such credit card 23 payment is contested and is not honored by the credit card company, any 24 other transaction in the name of such person with the department may be EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00966-01-9A. 2715 2 1 prohibited, upon at least thirty days notice, until full satisfaction of 2 the amount due to the commissioner has been paid. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 4 have become a law.