Assembly Bill A654

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing additional or relocated motor vehicle dealers to be located within six or ten miles of one another when separated by the Hudson River

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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-A654 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1850
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §462, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10334, S7893
2023-2024: A947, S442
2025-2026: S1685

2021-A654 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows for additional or relocated motor vehicle dealers to be located within six or ten miles of one another when separated by the Hudson River.

2021-A654 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    654
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing
   additional or relocated motor vehicle dealers to be located within six
   or ten miles of one another when separated by the Hudson River
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  15 of section 462 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as added by chapter 490 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   15. "Relevant market area" means:
   (a) if the proposed additional or relocated motor vehicle dealer is to
 be  located  in  a  county  having a population in excess of one hundred
 thousand, the area within the radius of six miles of the  intended  site
 of  the  proposed  or  relocated dealer. Such six mile distance shall be
 determined by measuring the distance between the nearest surveyed bound-
 ary of the existing new motor vehicle dealer's principal place of  busi-
 ness and the nearest surveyed boundary line of the proposed or relocated
 new motor vehicle dealer's place of business; [or]
   (b) if the proposed additional or relocated motor vehicle dealer is to
 be  within  a  county having a population of less than one hundred thou-
 sand, the area within the radius of ten miles of the  intended  site  of
 the proposed or relocated dealer. Such ten mile distance shall be deter-
 mined  by  measuring  the distance between the nearest surveyed boundary
 line of the existing new motor vehicle dealer's principal place of busi-
 ness and the nearest surveyed boundary line of the proposed or relocated
 new motor vehicle dealer's principal place of business[.]; OR
   (C) NOTWITHSTANDING PARAGRAPHS (A) AND (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, IF THE
 PROPOSED ADDITIONAL OR RELOCATED MOTOR VEHICLE DEALER'S RELEVANT  MARKET
 AREA UNDER PARAGRAPHS (A) OR (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION INCLUDES THE HUDSON
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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