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                                   6746
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                            September 25, 2019
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the  payment
   of charges for the issuance of license plates
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 401 of the  vehicle
 and  traffic law, as amended by section 1 of part H of chapter 59 of the
 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   a. Upon filing of such application and the payment of the fee  herein-
 after  provided,  the  commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicle a
 distinctive number and, without expense  to  the  applicant,  issue  and
 deliver  in  such  manner  as the commissioner may select to the owner a
 certificate of registration, in such  form  as  the  commissioner  shall
 prescribe, and two number plates at a place within the state of New York
 named by the applicant in his or her application. A number plate, within
 the meaning of this chapter, may, in the discretion of the commissioner,
 be  a  plate  of a permanent nature, treated with reflectorized material
 according to specifications prescribed by the commissioner, and  with  a
 date tag attached to such plate or to the vehicle as prescribed by regu-
 lations  of the commissioner indicating the validity of the plate during
 a certain period and the issuance of such a number plate with such  date
 tag to a person possessing such a number plate shall be deemed the issu-
 ance  of  a  number plate. An additional fee, not to exceed [twenty-five
 dollars] ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS ABOVE THE ACTUAL COST OF THE PLATES,
 ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST TWENTY-FIVE CENTS, shall be paid to  the  commis-
 sioner  whenever  a set of reflectorized number plates is issued for any
 vehicle for which a registration fee is normally  charged  except  that,
 with  respect to any number plate which is specifically requested by the
 applicant, such fee shall be paid to the commissioner upon  approval  of
 such request. In the event of the loss, mutilation or destruction of any
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 certificate  of  registration,  any number plate or set of number plates
 whether with or without a date tag or tags, or any date tag  or  set  of
 date  tags provided for in this article, the owner of a registered motor
 vehicle  may  file  such statement and proof of the facts as the commis-
 sioner shall require, with a fee of three dollars, in the office of  the
 commissioner,  or,  unless  and  until  the commissioner shall otherwise
 direct, in the office of the agent who issued  the  certificate,  plate,
 plates,  tag  or  tags  and the commissioner or his or her agent, as the
 case may be, shall issue a duplicate or substitute. It shall be the duty
 of every owner holding a  certificate  of  registration  to  notify  the
 commissioner in writing of any change of residence of such person within
 ten  days after such change occurs, and to inscribe on such certificate,
 in the place provided by the commissioner, a record of  such  change  of
 residence.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
 necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.