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                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend  the  vehicle  and  traffic  law,  in  relation  to  the
   retention of motor vehicle records
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of  paragraph  (i)  of  subdivision  1  of
 section  201  of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by section 2 of
 part E of chapter 60 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) any accident  reports  filed  with  the  commissioner,  conviction
 certificates,  police  reports,  complaints, satisfied judgment records,
 closed suspension and revocation orders,  hearing  records,  other  than
 audio tape recordings of hearings, AND significant correspondence relat-
 ing  to  any of the same[, and any other record on file] after remaining
 on file for four years except that if the  commissioner  shall  receive,
 during  the  last  year  of such period of four years, written notice to
 retain one or more of such  papers  or  documents,  the  same  shall  be
 retained  for  another  four  years  in  addition to said period of four
 years. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to  certificates
 of  conviction filed with respect to convictions which affect sentencing
 or administrative action required by law beyond such four  year  period.
 Such  certificates  may  be destroyed after they have no legal effect on
 sentencing or administrative action;
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 201 of the vehicle and  traffic  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (l) to read as follows:
   (L)  FOR  ANY  OTHER RECORD NOT SPECIFIED IN THIS SECTION, THE COMMIS-
 SIONER OR HIS OR HER DESIGNEE SHALL ESTABLISH A  RETENTION  SCHEDULE  IN
 CONSULTATION  WITH  THE  STATE ARCHIVES PURSUANT TO SECTION 57.05 OF THE
 ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
              

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01901-01-7