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                                  6295

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 11, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, FINCH, MOLINARO, OAKS, SALADINO, CROUCH,
  BURLING,  BLANKENBUSH  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of A. CERETTO,
  DUPREY, JORDAN, McLAUGHLIN -- read once and referred to the  Committee
  on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the quantity
  of disabled person plates issued to a disabled person

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 404-a of the vehicle  and  traffic
law,  as  amended by chapter 596 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read
as follows:
  1. Legislative intent. It is the sense of the legislature  to  facili-
tate  the usual and special uses of the highways and other motor vehicle
facilities accorded to severely disabled residents of  this  state.  The
commissioner  is  hereby  empowered to issue to such persons, upon their
application, special motor vehicle registrations, [one set  of]  vehicle
identification  plates  for  motor  vehicles owned by such persons to be
used for the transportation of such severely disabled  person  and  [one
set  of]  vehicle  identification plates for each motor vehicle owned by
such persons and used by a severely disabled member of the owner's fami-
ly.
  S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as
amended by chapter 191 of the laws  of  1991,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  2.  Registration  of  vehicles owned by severely disabled persons. The
commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicles, including any  van  or
pick-up  truck  used for transporting persons with disabilities which is
not used for commercial purposes, owned by such persons,  a  distinctive
number  and  issue  and  deliver  in such manner as the commissioner may
select to the owner a certification of registration, in such form as the
commissioner shall prescribe and two number plates PER VEHICLE OWNED  BY

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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SUCH PERSONS, called disabled person plates. Said disabled person plates
shall  conform  to  the requirements of section four hundred one of this
chapter, but shall bear  distinctive  marks  to  distinguish  them  from
number plates to be issued to other persons, qualifying under this chap-
ter.  The  commissioner, in his discretion, may issue, for any registra-
tion year, [only one plate as] a set OF DISABLED PERSON PLATES  for  [a]
EACH  motor vehicle[, in which event a set of disabled person plates for
a motor vehicle shall consist of  one  plate]  OWNED  BY  SUCH  DISABLED
PERSON.  Where a severely disabled person owns more than one vehicle and
such  vehicle or vehicles is or are used by severely disabled members of
the owner's family who reside with the  owner,  the  commissioner  shall
issue one set of plates for each additional vehicle used by such severe-
ly  disabled  person,  provided  that  such user qualifies as a severely
disabled person in the manner required by this section.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have  become  a  law  provided, however, that effective immediately, the
addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations  necessary
for  the  implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized
and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.