Senate Bill S8878

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to violations for concealed license plates

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Current 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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2023-S8878 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6249
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §402, V & T L

2023-S8878 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds a knowing element to certain violations for concealed license plates; increases the fine amounts for certain violations relating to concealed license plates to $75 - $300 for first violation, $75 - $350 for a second violation, and $75 - $400 for the third and any subsequent violations.

2023-S8878 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8878 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8878
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 22, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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  violations
   for concealed license plates
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (b) of  subdivision
 1  and  subdivision  8 of section 402 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 amended by chapter 451 of the laws of  2021,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (i)  Number  plates shall be kept clean and in a condition so as to be
 easily readable [and shall not be covered by glass or any plastic  mate-
 rial].
   (ii)  Number  plates  shall  not  be knowingly covered BY GLASS OR ANY
 PLASTIC MATERIAL or coated with any artificial or synthetic material  or
 substance  that conceals or obscures such number plates or that distorts
 a recorded or photographic image of such number plates.
   8. A violation of this section shall be punishable by a  fine  of  not
 less  than  twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, except that a
 violation of subparagraph (ii) or subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of
 subdivision one of this section shall be punishable by  a  fine  of  not
 less  than [fifty] SEVENTY-FIVE nor more than three hundred dollars UPON
 CONVICTION OF  A    FIRST    VIOLATION;  UPON  CONVICTION  OF  A  SECOND
 VIOLATION,  BOTH  OF  WHICH  WERE  COMMITTED WITHIN A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN
 MONTHS, SUCH VIOLATION SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF  NOT  LESS  THAN
 SEVENTY-FIVE  NOR MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS; UPON CONVICTION
 OF A THIRD OR SUBSEQUENT VIOLATION, ALL OF WHICH WERE COMMITTED WITHIN A
 PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS, SUCH VIOLATION SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A  FINE
 OF NOT LESS THAN SEVENTY-FIVE NOR MORE THAN FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05078-04-4

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