Bill Text: NY S07008 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires vehicle inspections to include a visual inspection of license plates to determine whether a license plate is delaminated, otherwise damaged or worn to be considered illegible, constituting grounds for failure of the inspection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S07008 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07008-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7008
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 3, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- 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  the  visual
          inspection of license plates
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 301 of the vehicle  and  traffic
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
     3    (4)  Such  inspection  shall  also  include a visual inspection of the
     4  license plates. Whenever a license plate shall have  become  so  delami-
     5  nated, or otherwise damaged or worn as to become illegible, such license
     6  plate  shall  not  meet  the  proper  and safe condition requirements of
     7  subdivision (a) of section three  hundred  four  of  this  article.    A
     8  license  plate  will  be deemed to be illegible when at least one of the
     9  license plate's numbers or letters cannot be read because (a) more  than
    10  one-third of a number or letter lacks color due to delamination or other
    11  damage,  including  fading,  or  (b) the license plate is missing one or
    12  more pieces and such piece or pieces include more than  one-third  of  a
    13  number or letter.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13590-03-7