Senate Bill S3895

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to suspending a vehicle registration after a third violation for overtaking and passing a stopped school bus

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S3895 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §401, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5727
2023-2024: S3377

2021-S3895 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the suspension of a vehicle registration after a third school bus safety camera violation for overtaking and passing a stopped school bus.

2021-S3895 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3895 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3895
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 1, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to suspending a
   registration after a third violation  for  overtaking  and  passing  a
   stopped school bus

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 5-a of section 401 of the  vehi-
 cle  and  traffic law, as relettered by chapter 487 of the laws of 1993,
 is relettered paragraph d and a new paragraph c  is  added  to  read  as
 follows:
   C.  UPON DETERMINATION THAT A REGISTRANT WAS LIABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH
 SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED  SEVENTY-FOUR-A  OF  THIS  CHAPTER  FOR  A  THIRD
 VIOLATION  OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER WITHIN
 AN EIGHTEEN MONTH PERIOD, THE COMMISSIONER OR HIS  OR  HER  AGENT  SHALL
 THEREUPON  SUSPEND  THE  REGISTRANT'S  REGISTRATION  FOR A PERIOD OF SIX
 MONTHS, AND SHALL DENY ANY REGISTRATION OR RENEWAL APPLICATIONS FOR  ANY
 OTHER  MOTOR  VEHICLE  REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE APPLICANT WHERE THE
 COMMISSIONER HAS DETERMINED THAT SUCH REGISTRANT'S INTENT  HAS  BEEN  TO
 EVADE  THE  PURPOSES  OF THIS SUBDIVISION AND WHERE THE COMMISSIONER HAS
 REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH  REGISTRATION  OR  RENEWAL  WILL
 HAVE THE EFFECT OF DEFEATING THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07755-01-1

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