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Assembly Bill A7974

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Increases the maximum penalty for concealing a license plate to a fine of one thousand dollars

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2023-A7974 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §402, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A5609

2023-A7974 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the maximum penalty for concealing a license plate to a fine of one thousand dollars; includes covering a license plate with glass or plastic material as part of the increased fine for concealing a license plate.

2023-A7974 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7974
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 18, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
   the  maximum  penalty  for concealing a license plate to a fine of one
   thousand dollars
 
   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, as amended by chapter 451 of the
 laws of 2021, 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].
   (II)  NUMBER PLATES shall not be covered by glass or any plastic mate-
 rial.
   [(ii)] (III) 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.
   [(iii)] (IV) The view of such number plates shall not be obstructed by
 any  part  of  the  vehicle or by anything carried thereon, except for a
 receiver-transmitter issued by a  publicly  owned  tolling  facility  in
 connection  with electronic toll collection when such receiver-transmit-
 ter is affixed to the exterior of a vehicle in accordance with  mounting
 instructions provided by the tolling facility.
   8.  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) [or], subparagraph (iii), OR SUBPARAGRAPH
 (IV)  of  paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  one  of this section shall be
 punishable by a fine of  not  less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  [three
 hundred] ONE THOUSAND 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.

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