NY State Senate Bill 2019-S1037

Senate Bill S1037

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides that historical vehicles manufactured without a front number plate display area need only display such a plate on the rear of the vehicle

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Jan 10, 2019	referred to transportation

2019-S1037 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §402, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S5319
2017-2018: S832

2019-S1037 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that historical vehicles manufactured without a front number plate display area need only display such a plate on the rear of the vehicle.

2019-S1037 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S1037

SPONSOR: YOUNG
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
certain historical motor vehicles to display a number plate only on the
rear of the vehicle

 
PURPOSE:

To allow for historical motor vehicles not manufactured with a number
plate display area on the front of the vehicle to display such number
plate on the back of the vehicle only.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 402 of the
vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 109 of the laws of 2005.

Section 2 sets forth the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Requiring owners of historical motor vehicles to affix number plates to
the front of their vehicles, where the manufacturer included no such
number plate display area, damages the vehicle and decreases the vehi-
cle's market value.

Classic and historical cars are collected by many New Yorkers for, in
some instances, nostalgic reasons, as well as for the vehicle's aesthet-
ics, rarity, and historical significance. These vehicles often increase
in value as they age, serving as an investment for the vehicle's owner.
These vehicles which were manufactured without a front number plate area
should not be required to have front license plates that will cause
damage to the vehicle such that the vehicle's value would be decreased.

This bill would help eliminate the devaluing of classic and historical
cars that were manufactured more than 25 years before the current calen-
dar year by preventing damage to the vehicle by allowing them to be
affixed with a single rear number plate.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2018: S.832 Committed to Rules

2017: S.832 Passed Senate

2015,2016: S.5319 Referred to Transportation

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the 1st of January.

2019-S1037 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1037
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- 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  authorizing
   certain  historical  motor  vehicles to display a number plate only on
   the rear of the vehicle

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph (a) 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:
   (a)  No  person  shall  operate,  drive or park a motor vehicle on the
 public highways of this state unless such vehicle shall have a  distinc-
 tive  number  assigned  to  it  by  the commissioner and a set of number
 plates issued by the commissioner with a number and other identification
 matter if any, corresponding to that of the certificate of  registration
 conspicuously  displayed,  one  on the front and one on the rear of such
 vehicle, each securely fastened so as to prevent the same from  swinging
 and  placed,  whenever  reasonably possible, not higher than forty-eight
 inches and not lower than  twelve  inches  from  the  ground;  provided,
 however,  that  in any registration year for which only one number plate
 is issued, such number plate shall constitute a set of number plates for
 the time in which such use is authorized, shall be displayed on the rear
 of the vehicle and none shall be displayed on its front, except in  case
 of  a tractor, when such number plate shall be displayed on the front of
 the vehicle and none shall be displayed on its rear.  PROVIDED, FURTHER,
 THAT FOR A  HISTORICAL MOTOR VEHICLE, REGISTERED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH G
 OF SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS ARTICLE,  WHICH
 WAS  NOT  MANUFACTURED  WITH A NUMBER PLATE DISPLAY AREA ON THE FRONT OF
 THE VEHICLE, THE NUMBER PLATE SHALL ONLY BE DISPLAYED  ON  THE  REAR  OF
 SUCH VEHICLE AND NONE SHALL BE DISPLAYED ON ITS FRONT.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03940-01-9

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