Bill Text: NY S09771 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 9771

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to eligibility for designated disability license plates for parents of severely disabled children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-29 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S09771 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09771-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9771

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 29, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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  special
          license plates for vehicles owned or used by people with disabilities

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 404-a of the vehicle  and  traffic
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 191 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    2. Registration  of  vehicles  owned  or  used  by  severely  disabled
     5  persons. The commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicles, including
     6  any van or pick-up truck used for transporting persons with disabilities
     7  or  any  specialized  vehicle,  as defined by paragraph b of subdivision
     8  sixteen of section four hundred one of this article, which is  not  used
     9  for commercial purposes, owned by such persons, or the parents or guard-
    10  ians of such persons, a distinctive number and issue and deliver in such
    11  manner  as  the  commissioner may select to the owner a certification of
    12  registration, in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe  and  two
    13  number  plates,  called  disabled  person  plates.  Said disabled person
    14  plates shall conform to the requirements of section four hundred one  of
    15  this  [chapter] article, but shall bear distinctive marks to distinguish
    16  them from number plates to be issued to other persons, qualifying  under
    17  this chapter. The commissioner, in [his] such commissioner's discretion,
    18  may  issue,  for  any  registration  year, only one plate as a set for a
    19  motor vehicle, in which event a set of  disabled  person  plates  for  a
    20  motor  vehicle  shall  consist  of  one plate. Where a severely disabled
    21  person, or by the parents or guardians of such persons, owns  more  than
    22  one  vehicle  and  such  vehicle  or vehicles is or are used by severely
    23  disabled members of the owner's family who reside with  the  owner,  the
    24  commissioner  shall  issue one set of plates for each additional vehicle
    25  owned or used by such severely disabled person, or  by  the  parents  or
    26  guardians  of  such  persons,  provided  that such owner or user, or the
    27  child of such owner or user, qualifies as a severely disabled person  in
    28  the manner required by this section.
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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