New York S 5736: Relates to eligibility for designated disability license plates

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S05736 Summary:

BILL NOS05736 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSCARCELLA-SPANTON

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §404-a, V & T L

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Relates to eligibility for designated disability license plates for parents of severely disabled children.

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BILL NOS05736 

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02/28/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5736

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 28, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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 special
 license plates for vehicles owned or used by people with disabilities

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic
 2 law, as amended by chapter 191 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read
 3 as follows:
 4 2. Registration of vehicles owned or used by severely disabled
 5 persons. The commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicles, including
 6 any van or pick-up truck used for transporting persons with disabilities
 7 or any specialized vehicle, as defined by paragraph b of subdivision
 8 sixteen of section four hundred one of this article, which is not used
 9 for commercial purposes, owned by such persons, or the parents or guard-
 10 ians of such persons, a distinctive number and issue and deliver in such
 11 manner as the commissioner may select to the owner a certification of
 12 registration, in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe and two
 13 number plates, called disabled person plates. Said disabled person
 14 plates shall conform to the requirements of section four hundred one of
 15 this [chapter] article, but shall bear distinctive marks to distinguish
 16 them from number plates to be issued to other persons, qualifying under
 17 this chapter. The commissioner, in [his] such commissioner's discretion,
 18 may issue, for any registration year, only one plate as a set for a
 19 motor vehicle, in which event a set of disabled person plates for a
 20 motor vehicle shall consist of one plate. Where a severely disabled
 21 person, or by the parents or guardians of such persons, owns more than
 22 one vehicle and such vehicle or vehicles is or are used by severely
 23 disabled members of the owner's family who reside with the owner, the
 24 commissioner shall issue one set of plates for each additional vehicle
 25 owned or used by such severely disabled person, or by the parents or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05124-01-5

 S. 5736 2

 1 guardians of such persons, provided that such owner or user, or the
 2 child of such owner or user, qualifies as a severely disabled person in
 3 the manner required by this section.
 4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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