What's happening
This bill allows disabled persons to receive a set of license plates for each vehicle they own, rather than just one set.
Why it matters
Expands accessibility for disabled persons. by allowing them to have specialized license plates on all vehicles they own, making it easier to use multiple vehicles without transferring plates.
Reduces administrative burden and inconvenience. disabled individuals no longer need to move plates between vehicles, which can be physically challenging and logistically complex.
Improves enforcement and clarity. for law enforcement and parking authorities, as every vehicle owned by a disabled person can display the appropriate plates, reducing confusion over eligibility for accessible parking and privileges.
Provides equal access for disabled family members. living with the plate holder, ensuring each qualifying family member using a separate vehicle can display their own set of disabled plates.
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Who cares
Severely disabled vehicle owners
The bill would provide two disabled person plates per vehicle they own, allowing owners of multiple vehicles to obtain plates for each.
Severely disabled family members living with vehicle owners
The bill would retain the requirement to issue a set of plates for each additional vehicle used by a qualifying severely disabled family member who lives with the owner.
Department of Motor Vehicles
The bill would change plate-issuance requirements, remove the commissioner's option to issue a single plate as a set and require any necessary implementing rules to be ready by the effective date.
Headline styles
Allow More Disability Plates
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Referred to transportation
- Held for consideration in transportation
- Referred to transportation
Full text
2 pagesUnderlined is new[Struck] is removedOfficial text on nysenate.gov ↗
STATE OF NEW YORK
3220
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, CROUCH, FINCH, HAWLEY, OAKS, SALADINO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McLAUGHLIN, PALMESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the quantity of disabled person plates issued to a disabled person
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 596 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
1. Legislative intent. It is the sense of the legislature to facilitate the usual and special uses of the highways and other motor vehicle facilities accorded to severely disabled residents of this state. The commissioner is hereby empowered to issue to such persons, upon their application, special motor vehicle registrations, [one set of] vehicle identification plates for motor vehicles owned by such persons to be used for the transportation of such severely disabled person and [one set of] vehicle identification plates for each motor vehicle owned by such persons and used by a severely disabled member of the owner's family.
§ 2. Subdivision 2 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 191 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:
2. Registration of vehicles owned by severely disabled persons. The commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicles, including any van or pick-up truck used for transporting persons with disabilities which is not used for commercial purposes, owned by such persons, a distinctive number and issue and deliver in such manner as the commissioner may select to the owner a certification of registration, in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe and two number plates per vehicle owned by such persons, called disabled person plates. Said disabled person plates
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05375-01-7
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shall conform to the requirements of section four hundred one of this chapter, but shall bear distinctive marks to distinguish them from number plates to be issued to other persons, qualifying under this chapter. The commissioner, in his discretion, may issue, for any registration year, [only one plate as] a set of disabled person plates for [a] each motor vehicle[, in which event a set of disabled person plates for a motor vehicle shall consist of one plate] owned by such disabled person. Where a severely disabled person owns more than one vehicle and such vehicle or vehicles is or are used by severely disabled members of the owner's family who reside with the owner, the commissioner shall issue one set of plates for each additional vehicle used by such severely disabled person, provided that such user qualifies as a severely disabled person in the manner required by this section.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law provided, however, that effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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