Bill Text: NY A06014 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6014 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Increases penalties for purposefully obstructed license plates to no less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-10-08 - signed chap.451 [A06014 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06014-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6014--A
                                                                Cal. No. 324

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 4, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI, DINOWITZ, McDONALD, ENGLEBRIGHT,
          CYMBROWITZ, SIMON, SILLITTI, THIELE,  GALLAGHER,  GALEF,  BUTTENSCHON,
          ABBATE, JACOBSON, LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Transportation  --  reported and referred to the Committee on Codes --
          advanced to a third reading, passed by Assembly and delivered  to  the
          Senate,  recalled  from  the  Senate, vote reconsidered, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading

        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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09617-03-1

        A. 6014--A                          2

     1  a  violation of subparagraph (ii) or subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b)
     2  of subdivision one of this section shall be punishable by a fine of  not
     3  less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     5  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.