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Assembly Bill A3989

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for the continuation of a commercial driver's license after lapse or termination of insurance if a person needs such license to perform employment

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2009-A3989 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง318, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A2773
2013-2014: A2162
2015-2016: A1462
2017-2018: A1301
2019-2020: A1748
2021-2022: A5307
2023-2024: A2619
2025-2026: A1046

2009-A3989 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the continuation of a commercial driver's license after lapse or termination of insurance if a person needs such license to perform his or her employment.

2009-A3989 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3989

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FINCH --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing
  for the continuation of a commercial driver's license after  lapse  or
  termination of insurance

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

  Section 1. Section 318 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
  16.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISIONS  OF THIS SECTION, THE COMMERCIAL
DRIVER'S LICENSE OF A PERSON WHO HAS HAD  HIS  OR  HER  REGISTRATION  OR
LICENSE  REVOKED  OR SUSPENDED PURSUANT TO ANY PROVISION OF THIS SECTION
SHALL NOT BE REVOKED OR SUSPENDED PROVIDED THAT SUCH  PERSON  HAS  FILED
WITH  THE  COMMISSIONER A STATEMENT, IN A FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMIS-
SIONER, INDICATING THAT HE OR SHE NEEDS SUCH COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE
TO PERFORM HIS OR HER EMPLOYMENT AND THAT  SUCH  DRIVER  SHALL  ONLY  BE
ALLOWED TO DRIVE HIS OR HER WORK VEHICLE WHILE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS
OR  HER  EMPLOYMENT. UPON RECEIPT OF THE FOREGOING STATEMENT THE COMMIS-
SIONER SHALL RESTRICT THE DRIVER TO A COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE  UNTIL
NEW PROOF OF FINANCIAL SECURITY HAS BEEN SECURED.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07009-01-9

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