Assembly Bill A6951A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires review of all motor vehicle repair shop applicants which includes community input

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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Bill Amendments

2023-A6951 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5936
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§398-c & 398-e, add §398-j, V & T L

2023-A6951 - Summary

Requires review of all motor vehicle repair shop applicants which includes community input.

2023-A6951 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6951
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ALVAREZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
   community review of all motor vehicle repair shop applicants
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 and  paragraph  (a-1)  of  subdivision  2  of
 section  398-c  of the vehicle and traffic law, subdivision 1 as amended
 by chapter 891 of the laws of 1977, and paragraph (a-1) of subdivision 2
 as added by chapter 63 of the laws of  1989,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  Registration required. (A) On and after the first day of November,
 nineteen hundred seventy-five, no person shall operate, or cause to have
 operated, a motor vehicle repair shop, unless such motor vehicle  repair
 shop is registered in accordance with the provisions of this article and
 unless  such  registration  is  currently  valid.  The  commissioner may
 request the attorney general to commence an action to enjoin the  opera-
 tion  of any motor vehicle repair shop in violation of this subdivision.
 A violation of this subdivision shall be heard and determined and  shall
 be  subject  to  penalties  as provided in section three hundred ninety-
 eight-i of this [chapter] ARTICLE.
   (B) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL CONSIDER ANY OR ALL  OF  THE  FOLLOWING  IN
 DETERMINING  WHETHER  TO APPROVE AN APPLICANT'S CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRA-
 TION OR RENEWAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION FOR THE OPERATION OF  A
 MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR SHOP:
   (I)  ANY  HISTORY  OF  VIOLATIONS OF THIS ARTICLE OR REPORTED CRIMINAL
 ACTIVITY AT THE PROPOSED PREMISES;
   (II) THE EFFECT OF THE APPLICANT ON VEHICULAR TRAFFIC AND  PARKING  IN
 PROXIMITY TO THE LOCATION OF THE REPAIR SHOP; AND
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04545-03-3
 A. 6951                             2
 
              

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2023-A6951A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5936
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§398-c & 398-e, add §398-j, V & T L

2023-A6951A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires review of all motor vehicle repair shop applicants which includes community input.

2023-A6951A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6951--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ALVAREZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Transporta-
   tion  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
   review  of  all  motor  vehicle  repair shop applicants which includes
   community input
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Section 398-c of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
   2-A.  ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR TRANSFERS AND RENEWALS.  THE COMMIS-
 SIONER SHALL CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING FACTORS IN  DETERMINING  WHETHER  TO
 APPROVE AN APPLICANT'S TRANSFER OR RENEWAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRA-
 TION FOR THE OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR SHOP IN THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK,  IN  ADDITION  TO  SUCH  OTHER  FACTORS THEY DEEM MATERIAL TO SUCH
 RENEWAL:
   (I) ANY HISTORY OF VIOLATIONS OF  THIS  ARTICLE,  HISTORY  OF  PARKING
 VIOLATIONS, OR PARKING-RELATED BUILDING CODE VIOLATIONS;
   (II)  COMPLAINTS FROM THE COMMUNITY BOARD OR BOARDS ESTABLISHED PURSU-
 ANT TO SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED OF THE NEW YORK  CITY  CHARTER  WITH
 JURISDICTION OVER THE AREA IN WHICH THE PREMISES IS LOCATED;
   (III)  PROOF  OF  NOTIFICATION  TO  SUCH  COMMUNITY BOARD OR BOARDS AS
 REQUIRED UNDER SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETY-EIGHT-J OF THIS ARTICLE;
   (IV) OPINIONS FOR OR AGAINST THE APPROVAL OF SUCH TRANSFER OR  RENEWAL
 PROVIDED  BY  THE  RELEVANT  COMMUNITY  BOARD WITHIN THIRTY-FIVE DAYS OF
 RECEIVING NOTICE PURSUANT TO SECTION  THREE  HUNDRED  NINETY-EIGHT-J  OF
 THIS ARTICLE;
   (V)  THE  EFFECT  OF THE APPLICANT ON VEHICULAR TRAFFIC AND PARKING IN
 PROXIMITY TO THE LOCATION OF THE REPAIR SHOP; AND
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04545-05-4
              

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