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Assembly Bill A1615A

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Limits that provision permitting the commissioner of motor vehicles to suspend the license or registration of a person whose check is dishonored

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2013-A1615 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §202-b, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A967
2011-2012: A1345
2015-2016: A1258
2017-2018: A1289
2019-2020: A2715

2013-A1615 - Summary

Limits the provision permitting the commissioner of motor vehicles to suspend the license or registration of a person whose check is dishonored after presented to such commissioner for payment.

2013-A1615 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1615

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

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  dishonored
  check fees

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

  Section 1. Section 202-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as  added  by
chapter 190 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
  S 202-b. Penalties  for submission of dishonored checks. A thirty-five
dollar penalty fee shall be charged to any person who  has  submitted  a
check  to  the  commissioner  or  his  or  her  agent as payment for any
license, permit or registration or any other type of fee for any type of
transaction as required by this chapter and such check has been  dishon-
ored.  Such  thirty-five dollar penalty shall be added to the amount due
to the commissioner. In addition,  [any  or  all  licenses,  permits  or
registrations] THE LICENSE, PERMIT OR REGISTRATION issued in the name of
such person FOR WHICH SUCH CHECK WAS SUBMITTED may be suspended [and, if
a  suspension has been issued, any other transaction in the name of such
person with this department may be prohibited] until  full  satisfaction
of the amount due to the commissioner and the thirty-five dollar penalty
fee  is  paid  to  the  commissioner. No such suspension shall be issued
until thirty days after  notification  that  the  check  THAT  has  been
dishonored  is  mailed  to  such  person. If satisfaction is made within
thirty days from the date of mailing of such notification, no suspension
shall be issued.
  S 2. 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.
                                                           LBD05615-01-3

2013-A1615A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §202-b, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A967
2011-2012: A1345
2015-2016: A1258
2017-2018: A1289
2019-2020: A2715

2013-A1615A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the provision permitting the commissioner of motor vehicles to suspend the license or registration of a person whose check is dishonored after presented to such commissioner for payment.

2013-A1615A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 1615--A
                                                         Cal. No. 89

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Transportation -- advanced to a third reading, amended and  ordered
  reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading

AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to dishonored
  check fees

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

  Section 1. Section 202-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
chapter 236 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
  S 202-b. Penalties for submission of dishonored checks and credit card
payments.  (a)  A thirty-five dollar penalty fee shall be charged to any
person who has submitted a check to the commissioner or his or her agent
as payment for any license, permit or registration or any other type  of
fee  for  any  type  of transaction as required by this chapter and such
check has been dishonored. Such  thirty-five  dollar  penalty  shall  be
added  to  the  amount due to the commissioner. In addition, [any or all
licenses, permits or registrations] THE LICENSE, PERMIT OR  REGISTRATION
issued in the name of such person FOR WHICH SUCH CHECK WAS SUBMITTED may
be  suspended  [and,  if  a suspension has been issued, any other trans-
action in the name of such person with this department may be  prohibit-
ed]  until  full  satisfaction of the amount due to the commissioner and
the thirty-five dollar penalty fee is paid to the commissioner. No  such
suspension shall be issued until thirty days after notification that the
check  has  been dishonored is mailed to such person. If satisfaction is
made within thirty days from the date of mailing of  such  notification,
no suspension shall be issued. (b) In any case where a person has made a
credit  card  payment to the commissioner or his or her agent as payment
for any license, permit or registration or any other type of fee for any
type of transaction as required by this chapter, and  such  credit  card
payment  is contested and is not honored by the credit card company, any

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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