Bill Text: NY S06667 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prevents fees from being charged for the issuance of license plates where the vehicle has legible plates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06667 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06667-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6667 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE August 23, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to preventing fees from being charged for the issuance of certain license plates 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 401 of the vehicle and traffic law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows: 3 e. No fee shall be paid whenever a set of reflectorized number plates 4 is issued for any vehicle for which a registration fee is normally 5 charged where: (i) the vehicle was previously issued a set of reflector- 6 ized number plates; (ii) the plates previously issued are still legible; 7 and (iii) the plates being issued are to the same registered owner and 8 vehicle as the previously issued plates. This paragraph shall not apply 9 to where a vehicle owner requests new number plates. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13655-01-9