Senate Bill S5955

Signed By Governor
2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to penalties for unregistered dealers

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S5955 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8009
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง415, V & T L

2015-S5955 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to penalties for unregistered dealers.

2015-S5955 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5955

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  KLEIN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  penalties
  for unregistered dealers

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

  Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of  paragraph  c  of  subdivision  16  of
section  415  of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 7 of
the laws of 2000, is amended and a new subparagraph (iii)  is  added  to
read as follows:
  (ii)  Any  person who operates as a dealer without being registered as
required by subdivision three of this section who has previously  had  a
civil  penalty  assessed  for  unregistered  operation  shall pay to the
people of this state a civil penalty in the sum of one thousand dollars.
ANY PERSON WHO OPERATES AS A DEALER WITHOUT BEING REGISTERED AS REQUIRED
BY SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION WHO  HAS  HAD  TWO  PREVIOUS  CIVIL
PENALTIES  ASSESSED FOR UNREGISTERED OPERATION NOT ARISING FROM THE SAME
INCIDENT ALL OF WHICH WERE COMMITTED WITHIN A PERIOD  OF  THIRTY  MONTHS
SHALL PAY TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE A CIVIL PENALTY IN THE SUM OF FOUR
THOUSAND TEN DOLLARS. Such civil [penalty] PENALTIES may not be avoided.
  (III)  NO  PERSON WHO OPERATES AS A DEALER WITHOUT BEING REGISTERED AS
REQUIRED BY SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION OR WHILE HIS OR HER REGIS-
TRATION IS REVOKED OR SUSPENDED SHALL PARK A MOTOR VEHICLE, WHICH HE  OR
SHE  OWNS OR CONTROLS AND HOLDS FOR SALE OR DEMONSTRATION, UPON A PUBLIC
HIGHWAY OF THIS STATE WITHOUT FIRST BEING REGISTERED IN ACCORDANCE  WITH
THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION  FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER. ANY SUCH
PERSON SHALL, IN ADDITION TO ANY PENALTIES IMPOSED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH
B OF THIS  SUBDIVISION  OR  SUBPARAGRAPH  (II)  OF  THIS  PARAGRAPH,  BE
REQUIRED  TO PAY TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE AN ADDITIONAL CIVIL PENALTY
OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH MOTOR VEHICLE OWNED OR CONTROLLED  AND
HELD  FOR  SALE OR DEMONSTRATION BY SUCH PERSON WHICH IS PARKED UPON THE

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11292-01-5

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