S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4188
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 1, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to maintenance
of motor vehicle number plates
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (b) 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:
(b) Number plates shall be kept clean and in a condition so as to be
easily readable and shall not be covered by glass or any plastic materi-
al THAT DISTORTS OR OBSTRUCTS THE VIEW OF THE DISTINCTIVE NUMBER OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING MARKS, and shall not be knowingly covered or coated
with any artificial or synthetic material or substance that conceals or
obscures such number plates or that distorts a recorded or photographic
image of such number plates, and the view of THE DISTINCTIVE NUMBER AND
OTHER IDENTIFYING MARKS, AS PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER, ON such
number plates shall not be obstructed by any part of the vehicle or by
anything carried thereon, except for a receiver-transmitter issued by a
publicly owned tolling facility in connection with electronic toll
collection when such receiver-transmitter is affixed to the exterior of
a vehicle in accordance with mounting instructions provided by the toll-
ing facility.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law; provided that, effective immediately, any
rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act
are authorized and directed to be completed on or before such effective
date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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