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                                   3121
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, McDONOUGH, LUPARDO, DiPIETRO, KOLB
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  permanent
   registration of historical motor vehicles
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Schedule G of subdivision 7 of section 401 of  the  vehicle
 and traffic law, as amended by section 25 of part G of chapter 59 of the
 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   G.  Schedule  for  historical  motor  vehicles. For each motor vehicle
 which is owned and operated as an exhibition piece or  collectors  item,
 and  is  used  for  participation  in  club  activities, exhibit, tours,
 parades, occasional transportation and similar uses, but  not  used  for
 general  daily  transportation,  [an annual] A fee of [twenty-eight] ONE
 HUNDRED dollars [and seventy-five cents] UPON  INITIAL  REGISTRATION  OF
 SUCH  VEHICLE.  SUCH  HISTORICAL  MOTOR  VEHICLE SHALL REMAIN REGISTERED
 WITHOUT THE IMPOSITION OF ANY OTHER FEE UNTIL SUCH TIME AS  THE  VEHICLE
 IS  SOLD  OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, AT WHICH TIME A NEW REGISTRATION AND
 FEE SHALL BE REQUIRED.   For purposes of this  paragraph,  a  historical
 motor  vehicle shall mean any vehicle manufactured more than twenty-five
 years prior to the current calendar year, and any other model, year  and
 type vehicle which has unique characteristics and which is determined by
 the  commissioner  to  be  of  historical,  classic or exhibition value.
 Registration plates for such vehicles shall be  of  a  type  and  design
 approved  by  the  commissioner,  but  shall be of a distinctive nature.
 Except that, with the approval of the commissioner, an owner of any such
 vehicle may utilize registration plates issued in the year corresponding
 to the model year date in which the vehicle  was  manufactured,  if  the
 registration  plate is legible, durable, and serviceable, of this state,
 and accurate in color, as determined by the department. Nothing in  this
 paragraph  shall  be  construed to prohibit the use of previously issued
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 registration plates that have  been  restored,  without  deviation  from
 their  original  alphanumeric or pictorial content, to such condition as
 otherwise satisfies all applicable requirements. Such  plates  shall  be
 used only for the operation of the motor vehicle listed on the registra-
 tion  application  and  on  other motor vehicles which would qualify for
 registration under this schedule owned by persons other than the  regis-
 trant  for  the  purpose of test driving by the registrant or his or her
 agent in anticipation of possible purchase. No such registration will be
 issued unless evidence of financial security, in a  form  prescribed  by
 the  commissioner,  is  submitted  which provides coverage for the motor
 vehicle listed on the registration application and for  non-owned  motor
 vehicles being operated with such plates.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.