S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4482
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 2, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, FINCH, OAKS, SALADINO, CROUCH, BLANKEN-
BUSH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CERETTO, DUPREY, McLAUGHLIN,
PALMESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the quantity
of disabled person plates issued to a disabled person
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 596 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read
as follows:
1. Legislative intent. It is the sense of the legislature to facili-
tate the usual and special uses of the highways and other motor vehicle
facilities accorded to severely disabled residents of this state. The
commissioner is hereby empowered to issue to such persons, upon their
application, special motor vehicle registrations, [one set of] vehicle
identification plates for motor vehicles owned by such persons to be
used for the transportation of such severely disabled person and [one
set of] vehicle identification plates for each motor vehicle owned by
such persons and used by a severely disabled member of the owner's fami-
ly.
S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as
amended by chapter 191 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as
follows:
2. Registration of vehicles owned by severely disabled persons. The
commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicles, including any van or
pick-up truck used for transporting persons with disabilities which is
not used for commercial purposes, owned by such persons, a distinctive
number and issue and deliver in such manner as the commissioner may
select to the owner a certification of registration, in such form as the
commissioner shall prescribe and two number plates PER VEHICLE OWNED BY
SUCH PERSONS, called disabled person plates. Said disabled person plates
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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shall conform to the requirements of section four hundred one of this
chapter, but shall bear distinctive marks to distinguish them from
number plates to be issued to other persons, qualifying under this chap-
ter. The commissioner, in his discretion, may issue, for any registra-
tion year, [only one plate as] a set OF DISABLED PERSON PLATES for [a]
EACH motor vehicle[, in which event a set of disabled person plates for
a motor vehicle shall consist of one plate] OWNED BY SUCH DISABLED
PERSON. Where a severely disabled person owns more than one vehicle and
such vehicle or vehicles is or are used by severely disabled members of
the owner's family who reside with the owner, the commissioner shall
issue one set of plates for each additional vehicle used by such severe-
ly disabled person, provided that such user qualifies as a severely
disabled person in the manner required by this section.
S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law provided, however, that effective immediately, the
addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary
for the implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized
and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.