Bill Text: NY S05369 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to repossession of a motor vehicle or motorcycle; extends the time frame in which the repossessor of a motor vehicle must submit the license plates to the department of motor vehicles from 24 hours to 10 days.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - SIGNED CHAP.473 [S05369 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05369-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5369--A Cal. No. 606 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 23, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to repossession of motor vehicle or motorcycle 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 425 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by chapter 81 of the laws of 1968, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. Any person, firm or corporation, or agent, employee or represen- 5 tative thereof, repossessing or retaking a motor vehicle or motorcycle 6 pursuant to the provisions of article nine of the uniform commercial 7 code, or other authority of law, or any contract or agreement, shall, 8 immediately following such repossession or retaking, personally appear 9 at a station house or other office of the police department, or agency 10 or officer performing like functions, in the locality wherein such 11 repossession or retaking occurred, give notice to such department, agen- 12 cy or officer of such repossession or retaking and thereafter and within 13 twenty-four hours of the tenth day after such repossession or retaking 14 personally deliver or mail by [special delivery] first class mail to the 15 nearest motor vehicle [district] office of the state or county acting as 16 an agent of the commissioner pursuant to section two hundred five of 17 this chapter, (a) notice of such repossession or retaking in such form 18 as the commissioner may require and (b) the number plates of such motor 19 vehicle or motorcycle. Notice of such repossession or retaking, includ- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09670-04-8S. 5369--A 2 1 ing the name and address of the person, firm or corporation repossessing 2 or retaking the same, shall also be given within twenty-four hours ther- 3 eof to the owner of such motor vehicle or motorcycle, either personally 4 or by registered or certified mail, or by first class mail, with a 5 certificate of mailing properly endorsed by the postal service to be 6 obtained, directed to such owner at his or her last-known address. 7 Unless the motor vehicle or motorcycle can be repossessed or retaken 8 without breach of the peace, it shall be repossessed or retaken by legal 9 process, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize a 10 violation of the criminal law. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 12 have become a law.
