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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by Sens. KRUEGER, ADDABBO -- 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  requiring
   that  all  limited  use  motorcycles  sold in the state of New York be
   registered

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 16 of section 415 of the vehicle
 and traffic law, as amended by chapter 7 of the laws of 2000, is amended
 to read as follows:
   b.  Except  as provided in paragraph c of this subdivision, any person
 who operates as a dealer without being registered shall be  required  to
 pay  to the people of this state a civil penalty in the sum of [one] TWO
 thousand dollars. However, any such person against whom such penalty has
 been assessed may avoid all but [five] SEVEN hundred  FIFTY  dollars  of
 such  penalty  by  obtaining a registration as required by this article,
 provided that application for such registration is made  not  more  than
 ten days after the imposition of such penalty.
   §  2.  The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
 2267-a to read as follows:
   § 2267-A. DEALERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF LIMITED USE MOTORCYCLES.  1. NO
 PERSON SHALL ENGAGE IN THE BUSINESS OF SELLING LIMITED USE  MOTORCYCLES,
 AS  DEFINED  IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE-B OF THIS CHAPTER, UNLESS
 THERE SHALL HAVE BEEN ISSUED TO THEM A DEALER REGISTRATION IN ACCORDANCE
 WITH SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FIFTEEN OF THIS CHAPTER. THE COMMISSIONER MAY,
 BY REGULATION, PROVIDE FOR IDENTIFICATION OF DEALERS AS BEING DEALERS IN
 LIMITED USE MOTORCYCLES, AND SHALL MAKE PROVISIONS FOR THE  ISSUANCE  OF
 APPROPRIATE DEALER DEMONSTRATOR NUMBER PLATES TO SUCH DEALERS.
   2.  NO DEALER SHALL ACQUIRE ANY LIMITED USE MOTORCYCLE FOR THE PURPOSE
 OF RESALE FOR USE ON THE PUBLIC HIGHWAYS WITHIN THIS STATE  UNLESS  SUCH
 LIMITED USE MOTORCYCLE HAS A VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER IN A FORM AND
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 MANNER  ACCEPTABLE  TO THE COMMISSIONER PERMANENTLY AFFIXED TO THE FRAME
 BY THE MANUFACTURER OR AUTHORIZED AGENT OF THE MANUFACTURER.
   3.  FEES ASSESSED UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE PAID TO THE COMMISSIONER
 FOR  DEPOSIT  TO  THE GENERAL FUND WHICH SHALL BE DEPOSITED TO THE DEDI-
 CATED HIGHWAY AND BRIDGE TRUST  FUND  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION
 EIGHTY-NINE-B  OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW AND THE DEDICATED MASS TRANSPOR-
 TATION FUND ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION EIGHTY-NINE-C OF  THE  STATE
 FINANCE  LAW  AND DISTRIBUTED ACCORDING TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION
 (D) OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED ONE-J OF THE TAX LAW.
   4. THE COMMISSIONER MAY PRESCRIBE, BY  REGULATION,  PROCEDURES  TO  BE
 FOLLOWED  BY  DEALERS  WITH  RESPECT  TO  RECORD  KEEPING  AND DOCUMENTS
 REQUIRED UPON THE SALE OF A LIMITED USE MOTORCYCLE, AND PROCEDURES TO BE
 FOLLOWED BY MANUFACTURERS WITH RESPECT TO THE ASSIGNMENT AND AFFIXING OF
 VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.