Bill Text: NY S04245 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4245 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Imposes sanctions for credit card charge backs on motor vehicle fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-29 - referred to transportation [S04245 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04245-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4245
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 15, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. FUSCHILLO -- (at request of the Department of Motor
         Vehicles) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed  to  be
         committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to sanctions
         for credit card charge backs on motor vehicle fees
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section 202-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
    2  chapter 190 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 202-b. Penalties for submission of dishonored checks AND CREDIT CARD
    4  PAYMENTS. A thirty-five dollar penalty  fee  shall  be  charged  to  any
    5  person who has submitted a check to the commissioner or his or her agent
    6  as  payment for any license, permit or registration or any other type of
    7  fee for any type of transaction as required by  this  chapter  and  such
    8  check  has  been  dishonored.  Such  thirty-five dollar penalty shall be
    9  added to the amount due to the commissioner. In  addition,  any  or  all
   10  licenses, permits or registrations issued in the name of such person may
   11  be  suspended  WHERE SUCH PERSON'S CHECK HAS BEEN DISHONORED, OR, IN THE
   12  CASE OF A CREDIT CARD PAYMENT, WHERE THE PAYMENT IS CONTESTED AND IS NOT
   13  HONORED BY THE CREDIT CARD COMPANY and, if a suspension has been issued,
   14  any other transaction in the name of such person  with  this  department
   15  may  be  prohibited  until  full  satisfaction  of the amount due to the
   16  commissioner and, IN THE CASE OF A  DISHONORED  CHECK,  the  thirty-five
   17  dollar penalty fee is paid to the commissioner. No such suspension shall
   18  be  issued  until thirty days after notification that the check has been
   19  dishonored OR THE CREDIT CARD PAYMENT HAS NOT BEEN HONORED BY THE CREDIT
   20  CARD COMPANY is mailed to such person. If satisfaction  is  made  within
   21  thirty days from the date of mailing of such notification, no suspension
   22  shall be issued.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   24  it  shall  have become a law and shall apply to all payments received on
   25  or after such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09092-01-3