Assembly Bill A4188

2017-2018 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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2017-A4188 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2249
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §402, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S6558
2015-2016: A8081, S780

2017-A4188 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-A4188 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4188
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred 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.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD02910-01-7

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