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                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 21, 2009
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Introduced  by  M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by --
  M. of A. KOLB -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Transpor-
  tation

AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to permanent
  registration of historical motor vehicles

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Schedule G of subdivision 7 of section 401 of the vehicle
and traffic law, as amended by chapter 710  of  the  laws  of  2004,  is
amended to read as follows:
  G.  Schedule  for  historical  motor  vehicles. For each motor vehicle
which is owned and operated as an exhibition piece or  collectors  item,
and  is  used  for  participation  in  club  activities, exhibit, tours,
parades, occasional transportation and similar uses, but  not  used  for
general  daily  transportation,  [an annual] A fee of [twenty-three] ONE
HUNDRED  dollars UPON INITIAL REGISTRATION OF SUCH VEHICLE. SUCH HISTOR-
ICAL MOTOR VEHICLE SHALL REMAIN REGISTERED WITHOUT THE IMPOSITION OF ANY
OTHER FEE UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE VEHICLE IS  SOLD  OR  OTHERWISE  TRANS-
FERRED, AT WHICH TIME A NEW REGISTRATION AND FEE SHALL BE REQUIRED.  For
purposes  of  this  paragraph, a historical motor vehicle shall mean any
vehicle manufactured more than twenty-five years prior  to  the  current
calendar  year,  and  any  other  model, year and type vehicle which has
unique characteristics and which is determined by the commissioner to be
of historical, classic or exhibition value. Registration plates for such
vehicles shall be of a type and design approved by the commissioner, but
shall be of a distinctive nature. Except that, with the approval of  the
commissioner,  an  owner  of  any  such vehicle may utilize registration
plates issued in the year corresponding to the model year date in  which
the  vehicle  was  manufactured,  if  the registration plate is legible,
durable, and serviceable, of this  state,  and  accurate  in  color,  as
determined  by  the  department.  Nothing  in  this  paragraph  shall be

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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construed to prohibit the use of previously issued  registration  plates
that  have been restored, without deviation from their original alphanu-
meric or pictorial content, to such condition as otherwise satisfies all
applicable  requirements.  Such plates shall be used only for the opera-
tion of the motor vehicle listed on the registration application and  on
other  motor  vehicles  which  would qualify for registration under this
schedule owned by persons other than the registrant for the  purpose  of
test  driving  by  the registrant or his or her agent in anticipation of
possible purchase. No such registration will be issued  unless  evidence
of  financial  security,  in  a  form prescribed by the commissioner, is
submitted which provides coverage for the motor vehicle  listed  on  the
registration application and for non-owned motor vehicles being operated
with such plates.
  S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.