S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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790
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 11, 2019
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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 penalties
for purposefully obstructed license 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 and subdivision 8 of section
402 of the vehicle and traffic law, paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 as
amended by chapter 109 of the laws of 2005, and subdivision 8 as amended
by chapter 61 of the laws of 1989 and as renumbered by chapter 648 of
the laws of 2006, are amended to read as follows:
(b) (I) 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
material[, and].
(II) NUMBER PLATES 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].
(III) THE view of such number plates shall not be obstructed by any
part of the vehicle or by anything carried thereon, except for a receiv-
er-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 tolling facility.
8. [The] A violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of
not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, EXCEPT THAT
A VIOLATION OF SUBPARAGRAPH (II) OF PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF
THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE
NOR MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.