Senate Bill S780

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Prohibits any obstruction of the view of the distinctive number and the identifying marks on the number plate of a motor vehicle

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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-S780 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8081
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง402, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S6558
2017-2018: S2249, A4188

2015-S780 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits any obstruction of the view of the distinctive number and other identifying marks on the number plate of a motor vehicle.

2015-S780 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S780 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   780

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  maintenance
  of motor vehicle number plates

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 402 of the  vehi-
cle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 109 of the laws of 2005, is
amended to read as follows:
  (b) Number plates shall be kept clean and in a condition so as  to  be
easily readable and shall not be covered by glass or any plastic materi-
al  THAT  DISTORTS  OR  OBSTRUCTS  THE VIEW OF THE DISTINCTIVE NUMBER OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING MARKS, and shall not be knowingly  covered  or  coated
with  any artificial or synthetic material or substance that conceals or
obscures such number plates or that distorts a recorded or  photographic
image  of such number plates, and the view of THE DISTINCTIVE NUMBER AND
OTHER IDENTIFYING MARKS, AS PRESCRIBED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER,  ON  such
number  plates  shall not be obstructed by any part of the vehicle or by
anything carried thereon, except for a receiver-transmitter issued by  a
publicly  owned  tolling  facility  in  connection  with electronic toll
collection when such receiver-transmitter is affixed to the exterior  of
a vehicle in accordance with mounting instructions provided by the toll-
ing facility.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it  shall  have  become a law; provided that, effective immediately, any
rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this  act
are  authorized and directed to be completed on or before such effective
date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04033-01-5

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