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                                  3092
                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                          I N  A S S E M B L Y
                            January 23, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Transportation
AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
  police departments to electronically transmit  to  parking  violations
  bureaus a copy of each report of stolen vehicle prepared
  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 239 of  the  vehicle  and  traffic
law,  as added by chapter 180 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as
follows:
  3. Stolen vehicles. If any owner of a motor vehicle receives a  notice
of  violation for a period during which the illegally parked vehicle was
reported to any police department as having been stolen, it shall  be  a
valid  defense to any charge of a parking violation that the motor vehi-
cle had been reported to the police as stolen  prior  to  the  time  the
violation  occurred and had not been recovered by such time.  THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT SHALL  ELECTRONICALLY  TRANSMIT  TO  THE  PARKING  VIOLATIONS
BUREAU,  WHO  SHALL  RECEIVE  AND KEEP ON FILE, A COPY OF EACH REPORT OF
STOLEN VEHICLE WITHIN FIVE DAYS OF  THE  REPORT'S  COMPLETION.  For  the
purposes of asserting the defense provided by this subdivision, it shall
be A sufficient DEFENSE that [a]:
  A.  A  COPY  OF  THE  ELECTRONICALLY  TRANSMITTED POLICE REPORT OF THE
STOLEN VEHICLE IS ON FILE WITH THE PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, OR
  B. A certified copy of the police report of the  stolen  vehicle  [be]
HAS BEEN mailed to the PARKING VIOLATIONS bureau.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04090-01-3