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Assembly Bill A4129

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or offer for sale of a decorative or facsimile license plate that is substantially similar to a license plate issued by the department of motor vehicles

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2025-A4129 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8016
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §402-a, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8298

2025-A4129 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or offer for sale of a decorative or facsimile license plate of a size, shape, color and design which is substantially similar to a license plate issued by the department of motor vehicles, such that such decorative or facsimile license plate appears to be a license plate issued by the department of motor vehicles.

2025-A4129 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4129
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH, SHIMSKY, GLICK, GIGLIO, DeSTEFANO -- read
   once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting
   the manufacture, sale, or offer for sale of a decorative or  facsimile
   license  plate that is substantially similar to a license plate issued
   by the department of motor vehicles
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 402-a of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as added by chapter 224 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   1.  No  person shall manufacture, sell, or offer for sale a decorative
 or facsimile license plate of a size, shape, color and design  which  is
 [identical  with]  SUBSTANTIALLY  SIMILAR  TO the size, shape, color and
 design of license plates issued by the department, SUCH THAT SUCH  DECO-
 RATIVE OR FACSIMILE LICENSE PLATE VISUALLY APPEARS TO BE A LICENSE PLATE
 ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06607-01-5

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