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                                    790
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  penalties
   for purposefully obstructed license 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 and subdivision 8 of section
 402 of the vehicle and traffic law, paragraph (b) of  subdivision  1  as
 amended by chapter 109 of the laws of 2005, and subdivision 8 as amended
 by  chapter  61  of the laws of 1989 and as renumbered by chapter 648 of
 the laws of 2006, are amended to read as follows:
   (b) (I) 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
 material[, and].
   (II) NUMBER PLATES 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].
   (III)  THE  view  of such number plates shall not be obstructed by any
 part of the vehicle or by anything carried thereon, except for a receiv-
 er-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 tolling facility.
   8. [The] A violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine  of
 not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, EXCEPT THAT
 A  VIOLATION OF SUBPARAGRAPH (II) OF PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF
 THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN  TWENTY-FIVE
 NOR MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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