Assembly Bill A6460

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the quantity of disabled person plates issued to a person with disabilities

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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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2021-A6460 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §404-a, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A6295
2013-2014: A4451
2015-2016: A4482
2017-2018: A3220
2019-2020: A6177
2023-2024: A5062

2021-A6460 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the quantity of disabled person plates issued to a disabled person.

2021-A6460 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6460
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 17, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, HAWLEY, NORRIS, MANKTELOW,
   MORINELLO,  REILLY,  BYRNES,  SALKA,  LEMONDES,   LAWLER,   DeSTEFANO,
   M. MILLER,  J. M. GIGLIO  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M. of A. BROWN,
   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 person with disabilities
 
   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 WITH SEVERE DISA-
 BILITIES of this state. The commissioner is hereby empowered to issue to
 such persons, upon their application, special  motor  vehicle  registra-
 tions,  [one set of] vehicle identification plates for EACH motor [vehi-
 cles] VEHICLE 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   family]   WITH   SEVERE
 DISABILITIES.
   § 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  WITH
 SEVERE  DISABILITIES. The commissioner shall assign to [such] EACH motor
 [vehicles] VEHICLE, including any van or pick-up truck used  for  trans-
 porting  persons  with  disabilities  which  is  not used for commercial
 purposes, owned AND USED by such persons, a distinctive number and issue
 and deliver in such manner as the commissioner may select to the owner a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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