Senate Bill S2713

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Authorizes county clerks to retain a portion of fees collected for motor vehicle related services through a department of motor vehicles' website

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee


  • 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-S2713 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §205, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6050
2017-2018: S2101
2019-2020: S1374

2021-S2713 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes county clerks to retain a portion of fees collected for motor vehicle related service fees and requires the commissioner to remit such fees to the county clerks on a quarterly basis.

2021-S2713 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2713 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2713
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 22, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, GALLIVAN, HELMING, O'MARA -- 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  allowing
   county  clerks  to  retain  fees  collected  for motor vehicle related
   services through a department of motor vehicles' website
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 205 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by section 3 of part G of chapter  59  of  the  laws  of
 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   3. (A) Each such county clerk shall retain from fees collected for any
 motor  vehicle  related  service  described  in  subdivision one of this
 section processed by such county clerk an amount based on  a  percentage
 of  gross  receipts  collected.  For  purposes of this section, the term
 "gross receipts" shall include all fines, fees and  penalties  collected
 pursuant  to  this  chapter  by  a  county  clerk acting as agent of the
 commissioner OR DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES'  WEBSITE,  but  shall  not
 include any state or local sales or compensating use taxes imposed under
 or pursuant to the authority of articles twenty-eight and twenty-nine of
 the tax law and collected by such clerk OR DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES'
 WEBSITE  on  behalf  of  the  commissioner  of taxation and finance. The
 retention percentage shall be 12.7 percent and shall take  effect  April
 first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-nine; provided, however, the retention
 percentage shall be thirty percent of the thirty dollar fee  established
 in  paragraph  (e) of subdivision two of section four hundred ninety-one
 and paragraph [f-one] (F-1) of subdivision two of section  five  hundred
 three of this chapter.
   (B)  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  REMIT ON A QUARTERLY BASIS TO EACH SUCH
 COUNTY CLERK FROM FEES COLLECTED FOR ANY MOTOR VEHICLE  RELATED  SERVICE
 DESCRIBED  IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION THAT ARE PROCESSED THROUGH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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