Bill Text: NY S08726 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Reduces the number of hours before a vehicle is considered abandoned; increases the dollar value of abandoned vehicles which may be seized by a local authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-06 - PRINT NUMBER 8726A [S08726 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08726-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8726--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 4, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  JACKSON,  SEPULVEDA,  PERSAUD  --  read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Transportation   --   committee   discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  abandoned
          vehicles

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 1224 of the vehi-
     2  cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 795 of the laws of  1974,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  with  no number plates affixed thereto, for more than [six] three
     5  hours on any highway or other public place;
     6    § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 1224 of the vehicle and traffic law,  as
     7  amended  by  chapter  540  of  the  laws  of 2002, is amended to read as
     8  follows:
     9    2. If an abandoned vehicle, at the time of abandonment, has no  number
    10  plates  affixed  and  is of a wholesale value, taking into consideration
    11  the condition of the vehicle, of [one] five thousand [two hundred fifty]
    12  dollars or less, ownership shall immediately vest in the local authority
    13  having jurisdiction thereof and title  to  the  vehicle  shall  vest  in
    14  accordance  with  applicable  law  and  regulations of the commissioner,
    15  provided however that a local authority shall not be required to  obtain
    16  title  to an abandoned vehicle that is subject to the provisions of this
    17  subdivision if the vehicle will be sold or otherwise disposed of as junk
    18  or salvage, dismantled for use other than as a motor vehicle, or  other-
    19  wise destroyed.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14319-02-4