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Assembly Bill A8569

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Retention of motor vehicle records

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2009-A8569 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3625
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง201, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A2487
2013-2014: A1262
2015-2016: A653
2017-2018: A65
2019-2020: A2619

2009-A8569 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the retention of motor vehicle records; allows for the destruction of certain records.

2009-A8569 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8569

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 28, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. GANTT -- (at request of the Department of Motor
  Vehicles) -- 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;
  S 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.
  S 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.
                                                           LBD09419-02-9

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