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Assembly Bill A1258

2015-2016 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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2015-A1258 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง202-b, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A967
2011-2012: A1345
2013-2014: A1615
2017-2018: A1289
2019-2020: A2715

2015-A1258 (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.

2015-A1258 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1258

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 8, 2015
                               ___________

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 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
other  transaction in the name of such person with the department may be

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03023-01-5

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