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Assembly Bill A11604

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Limits the availability of certain special number plates

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2025-A11604 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§404 & 411-a, V & T L

2025-A11604 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires special number plates reserved for elected public officers to only be available to such elected public officers during their term of office and must be surrendered to the department upon the end of such term.

2025-A11604 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11604
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 5, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gibbs) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to limiting the
   availability of certain special number plates
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  404 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
   2-A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  SPECIAL
 NUMBER  PLATES RESERVED FOR ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICERS SHALL ONLY BE AVAIL-
 ABLE TO SUCH ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICERS DURING THEIR  TERM  OF  OFFICE  AND
 SHALL BE SURRENDERED TO THE DEPARTMENT UPON THE END OF SUCH TERM.
   § 2. Section 411-a of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
   2-A.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, SPECIAL
 NUMBER PLATES RESERVED FOR ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICERS SHALL ONLY BE  AVAIL-
 ABLE  TO  SUCH  ELECTED  PUBLIC OFFICERS DURING THEIR TERM OF OFFICE AND
 SHALL BE SURRENDERED TO THE DEPARTMENT UPON THE END OF SUCH TERM.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, 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 effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16035-01-6

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