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                                   3220
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2017
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, CROUCH, FINCH, HAWLEY,
   OAKS, SALADINO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McLAUGHLIN, PALMESANO
   -- 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.
   § 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
 SUCH PERSONS, called disabled person plates. Said disabled person plates
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD05375-01-7

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 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.
   § 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.