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                                   4676
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  offering
   installment  payment plans as an option for persons with violations of
   toll collection regulations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 4-d of section 510 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as added by chapter 379 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   4-d.  Suspension of registration for failure to [answer or] pay penal-
 ties  UNDER  AN  INSTALLMENT  PAYMENT  PLAN  with  respect  to   certain
 violations. Upon the receipt of a notification from a court or an admin-
 istrative  tribunal that an owner of a motor vehicle failed to appear on
 the return date or dates or a new subsequent adjourned date or dates  or
 failed  to  pay  any penalty imposed by a court or failed to comply with
 the rules and regulations of an administrative tribunal following  entry
 of a final decision or decisions, in response to five or more notices of
 liability  or  other  process,  issued  within  an eighteen month period
 charging such owner with a violation of toll collection  regulations  in
 accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section two thousand nine hundred
 eighty-five  of  the  public  authorities  law  or  sections  sixteen-a,
 sixteen-b  and  sixteen-c  of  chapter seven hundred seventy-four of the
 laws of nineteen hundred fifty, the commissioner or  his  OR  HER  agent
 shall  OFFER  SUCH  PERSON  THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENTER INTO AN INSTALLMENT
 PAYMENT PLAN, PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF  SECTION  EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED
 TWO  OF  THIS CHAPTER, AT NO CHARGE FOR THE PAYMENT OF SUCH FINES AND/OR
 SURCHARGES AND ANY RELATED FEES. IF SUCH PERSON FAILS TO MEET HIS OR HER
 OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, THE COMMISSIONER OR HIS  OR  HER
 AGENT SHALL suspend the registration of the vehicle or vehicles involved
 in  the  violation  or  the  privilege of operation of any motor vehicle
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 owned by the registrant. Such suspension shall take effect no less  than
 thirty days from the date on which notice thereof is sent by the commis-
 sioner  to  the  person whose registration or privilege is suspended and
 shall remain in effect until such registrant has appeared in response to
 such  notices of liability or has paid such penalty or in the case of an
 administrative tribunal, the registrant has complied with the rules  and
 regulations following the entry of a final decision or decisions.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law; provided, however, that if chapter 382 of the laws of
 2020 shall not have taken effect on or before such date then section one
 of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as
 such chapter of the laws of 2020 takes effect.