New York A 461: Relates to providing more predictable and stable schedules for employees in low-wage occupations

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A00461 Summary:

BILL NOA00461 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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Amd §395, V & T L

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Prohibits certain entities from engaging in the business of assisting for hire in securing motor vehicle registrations or, for compensation, giving instructions as to procuring motor vehicle registrations.

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BILL NOA00461 

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01/08/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

01/15/2026enacting clause stricken

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 461

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting
 certain entities from engaging in the business of securing motor vehi-
 cle registrations or giving instructions as to procuring motor vehicle
 registrations

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

 1 Section 1. Section 395 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
 2 chapter 124 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 395. Certain private service bureaus to be licensed. Except as
 4 otherwise provided herein, no person, firm, association or corporation
 5 shall, engage in the business of assisting for hire in securing licenses
 6 to drive motor vehicles or registrations or titles of motor vehicles,
 7 nor shall any person, firm, association or corporation for compensation
 8 give instructions as to procuring licenses to drive motor vehicles or
 9 registrations or titles of motor vehicles, without being the holder of a
 10 license for such purpose issued by the commissioner of motor vehicles.
 11 An applicant for a license shall furnish the commissioner with such
 12 information and such references as to moral character as [he] such
 13 commissioner may reasonably require. Every application shall be accompa-
 14 nied by a fee of twenty-five dollars, which shall be regarded as an
 15 application fee and shall in no event be refunded. If an application be
 16 approved by the commissioner, the applicant upon the payment of an addi-
 17 tional fee of twenty-five dollars shall be granted a license which shall
 18 expire on the thirtieth day of June following the date of its issuance.
 19 The commissioner shall issue a license certificate to each licensee
 20 which certificate shall be conspicuously displayed in the place of busi-
 21 ness of the licensee, or, if the licensee has no place of business, such
 22 certificates shall be exhibited at the request of any person. In case of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02469-01-5

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 1 the loss, mutilation or destruction of a certificate, the commissioner
 2 shall issue a duplicate upon proof of the facts and the payment of a fee
 3 of one dollar. The refusal to issue a license may be reviewed by a
 4 proceeding under article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and
 5 rules. Such license shall be renewed annually upon the payment of a fee
 6 of twenty-five dollars, such renewal to take effect on the first day of
 7 July in each year. Upon renewal, the commissioner may, in [his] at such
 8 commissioner's discretion, issue a license which shall be valid for a
 9 two year period. The fee for any such two year renewal shall be fifty
 10 dollars.
 11 No license shall be issued under this section nor shall any renewal of
 12 a license issued under this section be made for conducting business in a
 13 city having a population of fifty thousand or more, according to the
 14 latest federal census if the place of business of the licensee, or
 15 branch thereof, is within fifteen hundred feet of a building, owned or
 16 leased by the state, a county or a city, in which motor vehicle regis-
 17 trations or licenses to drive motor vehicles are issued to the public.
 18 The said distance of fifteen hundred feet shall be measured along the
 19 public streets