Bill Text: NY A08298 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8298

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or offer for sale of a decorative or facsimile license plate of a size, shape, color and design which is substantially similar to a license plate issued by the department of motor vehicles, such that such decorative or facsimile license plate appears to be a license plate issued by the department of motor vehicles.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A08298 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08298-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8298

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting
          the manufacture, sale, or offer for sale of a decorative or  facsimile
          license  plate that is substantially similar to a license plate issued
          by the department of motor vehicles

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 402-a of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as added by chapter 224 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  No  person shall manufacture, sell, or offer for sale a decorative
     5  or facsimile license plate of a size, shape, color and design  which  is
     6  [identical  with]  substantially  similar  to the size, shape, color and
     7  design of license plates issued by the department, such that such  deco-
     8  rative or facsimile license plate visually appears to be a license plate
     9  issued by the department.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13468-01-3