Assembly Bill A5234

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Increases the penalties for purposefully obstructed license plates

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  • 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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2023-A5234 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2447
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§401, 402 & 510, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A10711, S8880

2023-A5234 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the penalties for purposefully obstructed license plates including the suspension of a vehicle's registration if the vehicle owner does not remove the artificial or synthetic material or substance that conceals or obscures the license plate or does not purchase new license plates.

2023-A5234 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5234
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, CARROLL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing
   the 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.  Subdivision 5-a of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic
 law is amended by adding a new paragraph d to read as follows:
   D. IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO REGISTER, REREGISTER, RENEW,
 REPLACE OR TRANSFER THE REGISTRATION, CHANGE THE NAME, ADDRESS OR  OTHER
 INFORMATION  OF THE REGISTERED OWNER, OR CHANGE THE REGISTRATION CLASSI-
 FICATION OF ANY VEHICLE WHOSE VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER  IS  ASSOCI-
 ATED WITH A VEHICLE WHOSE REGISTRATION HAS BEEN SUSPENDED, OR IS SUBJECT
 TO  A  PENDING REQUEST FROM A TOLLING AUTHORITY TO SUSPEND THE REGISTRA-
 TION, UNDER PARAGRAPH D OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION FIVE HUNDRED TEN
 OF THIS CHAPTER AND 15 NYCRR 127.14. THE COMMISSIONER OR THE COMMISSION-
 ER'S AGENT SHALL IMPOSE A VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER BLOCK  AND  DENY
 THE  REGISTRATION,  REREGISTRATION,  RENEWAL, REPLACEMENT OR TRANSFER OF
 THE REGISTRATION FOR SUCH  VEHICLE  AND  VEHICLE  IDENTIFICATION  NUMBER
 UNTIL  THE  TOLLING  AUTHORITY  ADVISES,  IN SUCH FORM AND MANNER AS THE
 COMMISSIONER SHALL  PRESCRIBE,  THAT  NOTICES  OF  VIOLATION  HAVE  BEEN
 RESPONDED TO AND ANY UNPAID TOLLS, FEES OR OTHER CHARGES ASSOCIATED WITH
 THE  VEHICLE AND THE VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER HAVE BEEN PAID TO THE
 TOLLING AUTHORITY. WHERE AN APPLICATION IS DENIED PURSUANT TO THIS PARA-
 GRAPH, THE COMMISSIONER MAY, IN THE COMMISSIONER'S  DISCRETION,  DENY  A
 REGISTRATION,  REREGISTRATION,  RENEWAL,  REPLACEMENT OR TRANSFER OF THE
 REGISTRATION 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 PARAGRAPH  AND  WHERE  THE
 COMMISSIONER  HAS  REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH REGISTRATION,
 REREGISTRATION, RENEWAL, REPLACEMENT OR TRANSFER  OF  REGISTRATION  WILL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06613-01-3
              

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