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                                   6158
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 5, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- 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 radio-fre-
   quency identification (RFID) tags
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
 section 134-d to read as follows:
   § 134-D. RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) TAG. A WIRELESS  DEVICE
 OR  TAG  THAT  STORES  AND  TRANSMITS INFORMATION BETWEEN A READER AND A
 RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) TAG THROUGH  RADIO  WAVES  WITHOUT
 MAKING ANY PHYSICAL CONTACT OR REQUIRING A LINE OF SIGHT, AND WHICH IS:
   1. CAPABLE OF STORING, AT A MINIMUM:
   (A) SUCH TAG'S UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER; AND
   (B)  THE NUMBER PLATE AND VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER OF THE VEHICLE
 TO WHICH SUCH TAG IS AFFIXED;
   2. PHYSICALLY AND ELECTRONICALLY TAMPER-PROOF;
   3. COMPATIBLE WITH THE CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION SYSTEM  ESTABLISHED
 BY THE DEPARTMENT; AND
   4.  COMPATIBLE  WITH  INTEROPERABILITY  STANDARDS  ESTABLISHED  BY THE
 DEPARTMENT AND OTHER RELEVANT ENTITIES FOR USE OF  THE  E-ZPASS  SYSTEM.
 FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE "E-ZPASS SYSTEM" SHALL MEAN A
 SYSTEM THAT USES A RECEIVER-TRANSMITTER ISSUED  BY  A  STATE  AUTHORITY,
 LOCAL  AUTHORITY,  OR INTERSTATE AUTHORITY, AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN
 SECTION  TWO  OF  THE  PUBLIC  AUTHORITIES  LAW,  FOR  ELECTRONIC   TOLL
 COLLECTION WHEN SUCH RECEIVER-TRANSMITTER IS ATTACHED TO A MOTOR VEHICLE
 IN ACCORDANCE WITH MOUNTING INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED BY SUCH STATE AUTHORI-
 TY, LOCAL AUTHORITY, OR INTERSTATE AUTHORITY.
   §  2.  Paragraph  a of subdivision 3 of section 401 of the vehicle and
 traffic law, as amended by section 1 of part H of chapter 59 of the laws
 of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   a. Upon filing of such application and the payment of the fee  herein-
 after  provided,  the  commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicle a
 distinctive number and, without expense  to  the  applicant,  issue  and
 deliver  in  such  manner  as the commissioner may select to the owner a
 certificate  of  registration,  in  such  form as the commissioner shall
 prescribe, and two number plates at a place within the state of New York
 named by the applicant in [his or her] SUCH APPLICANT'S  application.  A
 number plate, within the meaning of this chapter, may, in the discretion
 of  the  commissioner,  be  a  plate of a permanent nature, treated with
 reflectorized material according to  specifications  prescribed  by  the
 commissioner, and with a date tag attached to such plate or to the vehi-
 cle  as  prescribed  by  regulations  of the commissioner indicating the
 validity of the plate during a certain period and the issuance of such a
 number plate with such date tag to a person  possessing  such  a  number
 plate shall be deemed the issuance of a number plate.  A DATE TAG, WITH-
 IN  THE  MEANING  OF THIS CHAPTER, SHALL INCLUDE A RADIO-FREQUENCY IDEN-
 TIFICATION (RFID) TAG, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE  HUNDRED  THIRTY-FOUR-D
 OF  THIS  CHAPTER. An additional fee, not to exceed twenty-five dollars,
 shall be paid to the commissioner whenever a set of reflectorized number
 plates is issued for any vehicle for which a registration fee is normal-
 ly charged except that, with  respect  to  any  number  plate  which  is
 specifically  requested  by the applicant, such fee shall be paid to the
 commissioner upon approval of such request. In the event  of  the  loss,
 mutilation or destruction of any certificate of registration, any number
 plate  or  set  of  number  plates whether with or without a date tag or
 tags, or any date tag or set of date tags provided for in this  article,
 the  owner  of  a  registered  motor vehicle may file such statement and
 proof of the facts as the commissioner shall  require,  with  a  fee  of
 three  dollars,  in the office of the commissioner, or, unless and until
 the commissioner shall otherwise direct, in the office of the agent  who
 issued  the certificate, plate, plates, tag or tags and the commissioner
 or [his or her] SUCH COMMISSIONER'S agent, as the  case  may  be,  shall
 issue  a  duplicate  or  substitute. It shall be the duty of every owner
 holding a certificate of registration  to  notify  the  commissioner  in
 writing  of any change of residence of such person within ten days after
 such change occurs, and to inscribe on such certificate,  in  the  place
 provided by the commissioner, a record of such change of residence.
   § 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.