Bill Text: NY A04188 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits any obstruction of the view of the distinctive number and other identifying marks on the number plate of a motor vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to transportation [A04188 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04188-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4188
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to maintenance
          of motor vehicle number 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 of section 402 of the vehi-
     2  cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 109 of the laws of  2005,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  Number  plates shall be kept clean and in a condition so as to be
     5  easily readable and shall not be covered by glass or any plastic materi-
     6  al that distorts or obstructs the view  of  the  distinctive  number  or
     7  other  identifying  marks,  and shall not be knowingly covered or coated
     8  with any artificial or synthetic material or substance that conceals  or
     9  obscures  such number plates or that distorts a recorded or photographic
    10  image of such number plates, and the view of the distinctive number  and
    11  other  identifying  marks,  as  prescribed  by the commissioner, on such
    12  number plates shall not be obstructed by any part of the vehicle  or  by
    13  anything  carried thereon, except for a receiver-transmitter issued by a
    14  publicly owned tolling  facility  in  connection  with  electronic  toll
    15  collection  when such receiver-transmitter is affixed to the exterior of
    16  a vehicle in accordance with mounting instructions provided by the toll-
    17  ing facility.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    19  it shall have become a law; provided that,  effective  immediately,  any
    20  rules  and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act
    21  are authorized and directed to be completed on or before such  effective
    22  date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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