New York S 9456: Removes the requirement for registration stickers on certain motor vehicles and provides for the issuance of electronic certificates of registration for certain motor vehicles

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S09456 Summary:

BILL NOS09456 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10863

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§401, 404-a, 410, 238, 313, 403-a, 428, 236 & 312, V & T L; amd §1.20, CP L; amd §450.10, Pen L

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Removes the requirement for registration stickers on certain motor vehicles; provides for the issuance of electronic certificates of registration for certain motor vehicles.

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BILL NOS09456 

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03/13/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

05/19/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9456

 IN SENATE

 March 13, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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, the criminal procedure law
 and the penal law, in relation to removing the requirement for regis-
 tration stickers and provides for electronic certificates of registra-
 tion for certain motor vehicles

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 and paragraph a of subdivision 9 of
 2 section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law, subdivision 3 as amended by
 3 chapter 548 of the laws of 1986, paragraph a of subdivision 3 as amended
 4 by section 1 of part H and paragraph b of subdivision 3 as amended by
 5 section 24 of part G of chapter 59 of the laws of 2009, paragraph d of
 6 subdivision 3 as added by chapter 152 of the laws of 1990, and subdivi-
 7 sion 4 as amended by chapter 132 of the laws of 1986, are amended to
 8 read as follows:
 9 3. Certificates of registration. a. Upon filing of such application
 10 and the payment of the fee hereinafter provided, the commissioner shall
 11 assign to such motor vehicle a distinctive number and, without expense
 12 to the applicant, issue and deliver in such manner as the commissioner
 13 may select to the owner a certificate of registration, in such form as
 14 the commissioner shall prescribe, and two number plates at a place with-
 15 in the state of New York named by the applicant in [his or her] their
 16 application. A number plate, within the meaning of this chapter, may, in
 17 the discretion of the commissioner, be a plate of a permanent nature,
 18 treated with reflectorized material according to specifications
 19 prescribed by the commissioner[, and with a date tag attached to such
 20 plate or to the vehicle as prescribed by regulations of the commissioner
 21 indicating the validity of the plate during a certain period and the
 22 issuance of such a number plate with such date tag to a person possess-
 23 ing such a number plate shall be deemed the issuance of a number plate].
 24 An additional fee, not to exceed twenty-five dollars, shall be paid to
 25 the commissioner whenever a set of reflectorized number plates is issued
 26 for any vehicle for which a registration fee is normally charged except

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14856-02-6

 S. 9456 2

 1 that, with respect to any number plate which is specifically requested
 2 by the applicant, such fee shall be paid to the commissioner upon
 3 approval of such request. In the event of the loss, mutilation or
 4 destruction of any certificate of registration, any number plate or set
 5 of number plates [whether with or without a date tag or tags, or any
 6 date tag or set of date tags provided for in this article], the owner of
 7 a registered motor vehicle may file such statement and proof of the
 8 facts as the commissioner shall require, with a fee of three dollars, in
 9 the office of the commissioner, or, unless and until the commissioner
 10 shall otherwise direct, in the office of the agent who issued the
 11 certificate, plate, or plates[, tag or tags] and the commissioner or
 12 [his or her] their agent, as the case may be, shall issue a duplicate or
 13 substitute. It shall be the duty of every owner holding a certificate of
 14 registration to notify