Bill Text: NY A08386 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes county clerks to retain a portion of fees collected for motor vehicle related service fees and requires the commissioner to remit such fees to the county clerks on a quarterly basis.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-07 - print number 8386a [A08386 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08386-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8386--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                   September 11, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. RUSSELL, WOERNER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. LOPEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Transportation
          --  recommitted  to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  allowing
          county  clerks  to  retain  fees  collected  for motor vehicle related
          services through a department of motor vehicles' website
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 205 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by section 3 of part G of chapter  59  of  the  laws  of
     3  2008, is amended to read as follows:
     4    3. (a) Each such county clerk shall retain from fees collected for any
     5  motor  vehicle  related  service  described  in  subdivision one of this
     6  section processed by such county clerk an amount based on  a  percentage
     7  of  gross  receipts  collected.  For  purposes of this section, the term
     8  "gross receipts" shall include all fines, fees and  penalties  collected
     9  pursuant  to  this  chapter  by  a  county  clerk acting as agent of the
    10  commissioner or department of motor vehicles'  website,  but  shall  not
    11  include any state or local sales or compensating use taxes imposed under
    12  or pursuant to the authority of articles twenty-eight and twenty-nine of
    13  the tax law and collected by such clerk or department of motor vehicles'
    14  website  on  behalf  of  the  commissioner  of taxation and finance. The
    15  retention percentage shall be [12.7]  fifteen  percent  and  shall  take
    16  effect  April  first,  [nineteen hundred ninety-nine; provided, however,
    17  the retention percentage shall be thirty percent of  the  thirty  dollar
    18  fee  established  in  paragraph  (e)  of subdivision two of section four
    19  hundred ninety-one and paragraph f-one of  subdivision  two  of  section
    20  five hundred three of this chapter] two thousand seventeen.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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