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                                   8923
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 16, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to suspension
   of a license for failure to pay a fine for impaired driving violations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  subdivision heading and paragraph (a) of subdivision
 4-a of section 510 of the vehicle and traffic law, the subdivision head-
 ing as amended by chapter 76 of the laws of 2021, and paragraph  (a)  as
 amended  by  chapter  713  of  the  laws of 2021, are amended to read as
 follows:
   Suspension for failure to answer an appearance ticket OR PAY A CERTAIN
 FINE. (a) Upon receipt of a court  notification  of  the  failure  of  a
 person  to appear within sixty days of the return date or new subsequent
 adjourned date, pursuant to an appearance ticket  charging  said  person
 with  a  violation  of any of the provisions of this chapter (except one
 for parking, stopping, or standing) OR FOR FAILURE TO PAY A FINE IMPOSED
 PURSUANT TO SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-THREE OF THIS  CHAPTER  FOR  A
 VIOLATION  OF  SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THIS CHAPTER, of any
 violation of the tax law or of the transportation law regulating traffic
 or of any lawful ordinance or regulation  made  by  a  local  or  public
 authority,  relating  to  traffic  (except one for parking, stopping, or
 standing) the commissioner or [his or her] THE agent OF SUCH COMMISSION-
 ER may suspend the driver's license or privileges of such person pending
 receipt of notice from the  court  that  such  person  has  appeared  in
 response  to  such  appearance ticket or has paid or has entered into an
 installment payment plan to pay the fine associated  with  a  conviction
 entered as a result of the failure to appear in response to such appear-
 ance  ticket  OR IMPOSED PURSUANT TO SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-THREE
 OF THIS CHAPTER FOR A VIOLATION OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO  OF
 THIS CHAPTER, or the defendant has been acquitted of the charge that led
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 to  the  suspension or such charge was otherwise dismissed. Such suspen-
 sion shall take effect no less than thirty days from the day upon  which
 an  initial  notice  thereof  is  sent by the commissioner to the person
 whose  driver's license or privileges are to be suspended, provided that
 the commissioner shall send such person at least  two  notices  thereof,
 including  such  initial notice, at least fifteen days apart during such
 period. Any suspension  issued  pursuant  to  this  paragraph  shall  be
 subject  to  the  provisions  of  paragraph  (j-l) of subdivision two of
 section five hundred three of this [chapter] TITLE.
   § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 1802 of the vehicle and
 traffic law, as added by chapter 382 of the laws of 2020, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   (b)  The  court  or  hearing  officer shall have the discretion in the
 interests of justice to reduce or waive the amount of any fine,  fee  or
 mandatory surcharge assessed for a violation of any of the provisions of
 this chapter or any local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation made
 by  local  authorities  in  relation  to traffic, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL NOT  APPLY  TO  FINES  AND  MANDATORY
 SURCHARGES  IMPOSED  FOR VIOLATIONS OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO
 OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.