Bill Text: NY A05710 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to termination of suspension fees; sets a one-time fee of a maximum of seventy dollars.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-12-15 - enacting clause stricken [A05710 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A05710-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5710 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KEARNS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to termination of suspension fees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (j-1) of subdivision 2 of 2 section 503 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by section 3 of 3 part PP of chapter 59 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as 4 follows: 5 (i) When a license issued pursuant to this article, or a privilege of 6 operating a motor vehicle or of obtaining such a license, has been 7 suspended based upon a failure to answer an appearance ticket or a 8 summons or failure to pay a fine, penalty or mandatory surcharge, pursu- 9 ant to subdivision three of section two hundred twenty-six, subdivision 10 four of section two hundred twenty-seven, subdivision four-a of section 11 five hundred ten or subdivision five-a of section eighteen hundred nine 12 of this chapter, such suspension shall remain in effect until a one-time 13 termination of a suspension fee of a maximum of seventy dollars is paid 14 to the court or tribunal that initiated the suspension of such license 15 or privilege. In no event may the aggregate of the fees imposed by an 16 individual court pursuant to this paragraph for the termination of all 17 suspensions that may be terminated as a result of a person's answers, 18 appearances or payments made in such cases pending before such individ- 19 ual court exceed [four hundred] seventy dollars. For the purposes of 20 this paragraph, the various locations of the administrative tribunal 21 established under article two-A of this chapter shall be considered an 22 individual court. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09790-01-7