Bill Text: NY S07844 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes that the department of motor vehicles shall notify individuals via postal mail that their vehicle inspection is subject to expiration thirty days before such expiration; provides for a five day grace period after the expiration of the vehicle inspection certificate wherein operators of such vehicle shall not be fined.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-13 - referred to transportation [S07844 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S07844-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7844 IN SENATE March 1, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- 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 requiring vehicle inspection renewal notification thirty days prior to expira- tion The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 304 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision (d) to read as follows: 3 (d)(1) The department of motor vehicles shall notify individuals via 4 postal mail that their vehicle inspection is subject to expiration thir- 5 ty days before such expiration. Every owner of a motor vehicle which 6 shall be operated or driven upon the public highways of this state 7 shall, except as otherwise expressly provided, be contacted by mail or 8 otherwise. 9 (2) The renewal notification shall contain: (A) a brief description of 10 the motor vehicle that has an inspection that needs to be renewed, 11 including the name and factory number of such vehicle, and such other 12 facts as the commissioner shall require; (B) the name and residence, 13 including county of the owner of such motor vehicle; (C) notification 14 that such inspection shall expire at the end of the current month; and 15 (D) such additional facts or evidence as the commissioner may require in 16 connection with the letter of notification. 17 (3) The commissioner shall register the notification sent regarding 18 such motor vehicle or trailer and maintain a record of such renewal 19 notifications and the addresses to which such notifications were sent. 20 (4) It shall be the duty of every owner holding a certificate of 21 registration to notify the commissioner in writing of any change of 22 residence of such person within ten days after such change occurs, and 23 to inscribe on such certificate, in the place provided by the commis- 24 sioner, a record of such change of residence. 25 (5) Inspection renewal notifications shall take effect on the date 26 determined by the commissioner. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14118-02-8S. 7844 2 1 (6) The commissioner may promulgate such regulations as are necessary 2 to effectuate the provisions of this subdivision. 3 § 2. Subdivision (b) of section 306 of the vehicle and traffic law, as 4 amended by chapter 608 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as 5 follows: 6 (b) No motor vehicle shall be operated or parked on the public high- 7 ways of this state unless a certificate or certificates of inspection, 8 as required by this article, is or are displayed upon the vehicle or 9 affixed to the registration certificate for the vehicle as may be deter- 10 mined by the commissioner. The commissioner may, by regulation, provide 11 for a temporary indicia of inspection to be placed on a motor vehicle 12 which shall be valid as a certificate of inspection for a period not to 13 exceed fifteen days upon the loss, theft, mutilation or destruction of a 14 certificate of inspection. Any violation of this section that occurs 15 while a motor vehicle is parked on the public highways of this state 16 shall constitute a parking violation. Every agreement for the lease or 17 rental of a motor vehicle for a period of not more than thirty days 18 shall be deemed to provide that the lessor of such vehicle shall, in all 19 respects, be substituted for the lessee or any person operating the 20 vehicle in conformity with the lease or rental agreement in connection 21 with any charge of violating this section, provided that any summons 22 issued to the operator for violation of this section is turned over to 23 the lessor. A violation of this subdivision shall be punishable by a 24 fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for a 25 first offense, and by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two 26 hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than fifteen days, or by 27 both such fine and imprisonment, for each subsequent offense; provided 28 however, that if the vehicle bears a certificate or certificates of 29 inspection which was or were valid within the last sixty days, such 30 violation shall be punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor 31 more than fifty dollars; provided further however, there shall be a five 32 day grace period after the expiration of such certificate, wherein oper- 33 ators of such vehicle shall not be found to be in violation of this 34 subdivision. Such grace period shall be a complete defense to liability 35 under this section. 36 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 37 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.