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Senate Bill S5319

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides that historical vehicles manufactured without a front number plate display area need only display such a plate on the rear of the vehicle

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2015-S5319 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง402, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S832
2019-2020: S1037

2015-S5319 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that historical vehicles manufactured without a front number plate display area need only display such a plate on the rear of the vehicle.

2015-S5319 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S5319 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5319

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
  certain  historical  motor  vehicles to display a number plate only on
  the rear of the vehicle

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

  Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 402 of the vehi-
cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 109 of the laws of  2005,  is
amended to read as follows:
  (a)  No  person  shall  operate,  drive or park a motor vehicle on the
public highways of this state unless such vehicle shall have a  distinc-
tive  number  assigned  to  it  by  the commissioner and a set of number
plates issued by the commissioner with a number and other identification
matter if any, corresponding to that of the certificate of  registration
conspicuously  displayed,  one  on the front and one on the rear of such
vehicle, each securely fastened so as to prevent the same from  swinging
and  placed,  whenever  reasonably possible, not higher than forty-eight
inches and not lower than  twelve  inches  from  the  ground;  provided,
however,  that  in any registration year for which only one number plate
is issued, such number plate shall constitute a set of number plates for
the time in which such use is authorized, shall be displayed on the rear
of the vehicle and none shall be displayed on its front, except in  case
of  a tractor, when such number plate shall be displayed on the front of
the vehicle and none shall be displayed on its rear.  PROVIDED, FURTHER,
THAT FOR A  HISTORICAL MOTOR VEHICLE, REGISTERED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH G
OF SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS ARTICLE,  WHICH
WAS  NOT  MANUFACTURED  WITH A NUMBER PLATE DISPLAY AREA ON THE FRONT OF
THE VEHICLE, THE NUMBER PLATE SHALL ONLY BE DISPLAYED  ON  THE  REAR  OF
SUCH VEHICLE AND NONE SHALL BE DISPLAYED ON ITS FRONT.
  S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

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

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