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A4593Assembly2019-2020 Session

Let MTA Suspend Vehicle Registrations

Official title

“Grants the metropolitan transportation authority the power to suspend vehicle registration in certain cases”

Sponsor J. Gary PretlowAD-89Affects Transportation
Status
In Assembly Committee
Transportation
Impact
6/10
Moderate
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Transportation

What's happening

This bill lets the MTA suspend vehicle registrations for unpaid tolls or fines exceeding $100.

Why it matters

  1. Direct enforcement power. Gives the Metropolitan Transportation Authority authority to hold or suspend vehicle registrations over debts owed to it.

  2. Debt threshold. Applies to vehicle owners owing more than $100 in toll charges, fines or both to the MTA, rather than all unpaid tolls statewide.

  3. Resolving a suspension. A hold or suspension may remain until the debt is paid in full or placed on an MTA-authorized payment plan.

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Who cares

  • Vehicle owners owing MTA tolls or fines

    They could face registration holds or suspensions when their unpaid balance exceeds $100.

  • Metropolitan Transportation Authority

    It would gain direct authority to use vehicle registration holds or suspensions to collect unpaid balances.

  • Businesses with vehicles owing MTA tolls or fines

    Registration suspensions could disrupt use of affected vehicles.

Headline styles

Let MTA Suspend Vehicle Registrations

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
J. Gary Pretlow

Assembly Member · Assembly District 89

Chair, Ways and Means

No co-sponsors yet.

History

  1. Referred to transportation
  2. Referred to transportation

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

4593

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

February 4, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to suspension of registration by the metropolitan transportation authority

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 510-e to read as follows:

§ 510-e. Suspension of registration by the metropolitan transportation authority. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of section five hundred ten of this article, the metropolitan transportation authority is hereby authorized to put on hold or otherwise suspend the registration of a vehicle whose owner has an unpaid balance of toll charges and/or fines in excess of one hundred dollars owed to the authority. Such hold or suspension may remain in effect until all such charges and/or fines are satisfied in full or have been made subject to a payment plan authorized by the authority.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD09009-01-9

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