Senate Bill S6315

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  6315

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            November 24, 2009
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Introduced  by Sen. THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the fee  for
  number plates

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

  Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 401 of the  vehicle
and  traffic law, as amended by section 1 of part H of chapter 59 of the
laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
  a. Upon filing of such application and the payment of the fee  herein-
after  provided,  the  commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicle a
distinctive number and, without expense  to  the  applicant,  issue  and
deliver  in  such  manner  as the commissioner may select to the owner a
certificate of registration, in such  form  as  the  commissioner  shall
prescribe, and two number plates at a place within the state of New York
named by the applicant in his or her application. A number plate, within
the meaning of this chapter, may, in the discretion of the commissioner,
be  a  plate  of a permanent nature, treated with reflectorized material
according to specifications prescribed by the commissioner, and  with  a
date tag attached to such plate or to the vehicle as prescribed by regu-
lations  of the commissioner indicating the validity of the plate during
a certain period and the issuance of such a number plate with such  date
tag to a person possessing such a number plate shall be deemed the issu-
ance  of  a number plate. An additional fee, not to exceed [twenty-five]
FIFTEEN dollars, shall be paid to the commissioner  whenever  a  set  of
reflectorized number plates is issued for any vehicle for which a regis-
tration  fee is normally charged except that, with respect to any number
plate which is specifically requested by the applicant, such  fee  shall
be  paid to the commissioner upon approval of such request. In the event
of the loss, mutilation or destruction of any certificate  of  registra-
tion, any number plate or set of number plates whether with or without a

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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date  tag  or  tags, or any date tag or set of date tags provided for in
this article, the owner of a registered  motor  vehicle  may  file  such
statement and proof of the facts as the commissioner shall require, with
a  fee  of  three dollars, in the office of the commissioner, or, unless
and until the commissioner shall otherwise direct, in the office of  the
agent  who  issued  the  certificate, plate, plates, tag or tags and the
commissioner or his or her agent, as the case  may  be,  shall  issue  a
duplicate  or  substitute. It shall be the duty of every owner holding a
certificate of registration to notify the commissioner in writing of any
change of residence of such person within ten  days  after  such  change
occurs,  and  to  inscribe on such certificate, in the place provided by
the commissioner, a record of such change of residence.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
manner  as  section 1 of part H of chapter 59 of the laws of 2009, takes
effect.