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Assembly Bill A1087

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Prohibits the use of digital license plate frames

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2019-A1087 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add §397-c, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10703
2011-2012: A2068
2013-2014: A2494
2015-2016: A1005
2017-2018: A420

2019-A1087 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the use of digital license plate frames which are capable of producing still or scrolling texts or images.

2019-A1087 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1087
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  prohibiting
   the use of digital license plate frames
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 397-c to read as follows:
   §  397-C.  DIGITAL  LICENSE  PLATE  FRAMES  PROHIBITED.  1. NO DIGITAL
 LICENSE PLATE FRAME SHALL BE USED IN ANY MOTOR VEHICLE. THE PRESENCE  ON
 SUCH  VEHICLE  OF  A  DIGITAL  LICENSE  PLATE FRAME CONNECTED TO A POWER
 SOURCE AND IN AN OPERABLE CONDITION IS PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE OF  ITS  USE
 BY ANY PERSON OPERATING SUCH VEHICLE. SUCH PRESUMPTION SHALL BE REBUTTED
 BY  ANY  CREDIBLE  AND  RELIABLE  EVIDENCE WHICH TENDS TO SHOW THAT SUCH
 DIGITAL LICENSE PLATE FRAME WAS NOT IN USE.
   2. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS  SECTION  THE  TERM,  "DIGITAL  LICENSE  PLATE
 FRAME"  SHALL  MEAN ANY DIGITAL LICENSE PLATE FRAME CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
 STILL OR SCROLLING IMAGES OR TEXTS.
   3. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS  AUTHORIZ-
 ING  THE  SEIZURE OR FORFEITURE OF A DIGITAL LICENSE PLATE FRAME, UNLESS
 OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW.
   4. A VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION  SHALL  CONSTITUTE  A
 TRAFFIC INFRACTION PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF SIXTY-FIVE DOLLARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00101-01-9

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