Bill Text: NY A08081 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8081 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to transportation [A08081 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08081-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8081
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 5, 2015
                                      ___________
       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    S 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.
                                                                  LBD04033-01-5