Bill Text: NY A09521 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the dollar value of abandoned vehicles which may be seized by a local authority.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-05 - reported referred to rules [A09521 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09521-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9521

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 20, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to abandoned
          vehicles

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 1224 of the vehi-
     2  cle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 795 of the laws of 1974, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) with no number plates affixed thereto, for more than  [six]  three
     5  hours on any highway or other public place;
     6    §  2. Subdivision 2 of section 1224 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
     7  amended by chapter 540 of the laws  of  2002,  is  amended  to  read  as
     8  follows:
     9    2.  If an abandoned vehicle, at the time of abandonment, has no number
    10  plates affixed and is of a wholesale value,  taking  into  consideration
    11  the condition of the vehicle, of [one] five thousand [two hundred fifty]
    12  dollars or less, ownership shall immediately vest in the local authority
    13  having  jurisdiction  thereof  and  title  to  the vehicle shall vest in
    14  accordance with applicable law  and  regulations  of  the  commissioner,
    15  provided  however that a local authority shall not be required to obtain
    16  title to an abandoned vehicle that is subject to the provisions of  this
    17  subdivision if the vehicle will be sold or otherwise disposed of as junk
    18  or  salvage, dismantled for use other than as a motor vehicle, or other-
    19  wise destroyed.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14319-03-4