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STATE OF NEW YORK
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7604--A

2011-2012 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

May 10, 2011
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Introduced  by  M. of A. GANTT -- (at request of the Department of Motor
  Vehicles) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
  -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in  accordance  with
  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing the
  commissioner  to  require  an  electronic  transfer of vehicles and to
  establish separate fees for paper and electronic transfers

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of section 415 of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by section 1-b of part A of chapter 63 of  the  laws  of
2005, is amended to read as follows:
  6.  Fees.  Every  original application for registration as a dealer or
transporter shall be accompanied by an application fee  of  thirty-seven
dollars and fifty cents, which shall in no event be refunded. The annual
fee  for  registration as a dealer or transporter or for renewal thereof
shall be two hundred twenty-five dollars. The annual fee for  any  other
registration  under  this  section  shall be fifty dollars. However, the
commissioner may, in his discretion, issue a renewal of either registra-
tion for a period of two years. The fee for a two-year renewal shall  be
twice  the  annual  fee. The annual fee for dealer or transporter number
plates shall be twenty dollars for each set. If the commissioner  issues
to  dealers  a document which is required to be used by a dealer to sell
or transfer a vehicle, the fee for the issuance of  each  such  document
shall  be  five dollars.   IN LIEU OF ISSUING SUCH DOCUMENT, THE COMMIS-
SIONER MAY, BY REGULATION, REQUIRE THAT  THE  INFORMATION  CONTAINED  ON
SUCH  DOCUMENT  BE  TRANSMITTED  TO  THE COMMISSIONER ELECTRONICALLY AND
STORED ELECTRONICALLY BY THE COMMISSIONER. THE FEE FOR TRANSMITTING SUCH
INFORMATION ELECTRONICALLY SHALL BE FIVE DOLLARS. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL
PROVIDE THAT SUCH ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION BE WAIVED WHEN A DEALER  SHOWS

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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GOOD  CAUSE  THAT  THE  DEALER CANNOT TRANSMIT THE INFORMATION ELECTRON-
ICALLY. There shall be no refund of registration fee or fees for  number
plates  in the event of suspension, revocation or voluntary cancellation
of  registration.  The  fee for any such transfer document issued by the
commissioner shall be refunded only upon the surrender of such  document
upon voluntary cancellation of registration.
  S  2.  Subdivision 6 of section 415 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
amended by chapter 7 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  6. Fees. Every original application for registration as  a  dealer  or
transporter  shall  be  accompanied by an application fee of twenty-five
dollars, which shall in no event be refunded. The annual fee for  regis-
tration  as  a dealer or transporter or for renewal thereof shall be one
hundred fifty dollars. The annual fee for any other  registration  under
this  section  shall be fifty dollars. However, the commissioner may, in
his discretion, issue a renewal of either registration for a  period  of
two years. The fee for a two-year renewal shall be twice the annual fee.
The  annual  fee for dealer or transporter number plates shall be twenty
dollars for each set. If the commissioner issues to dealers  a  document
which  is required to be used by a dealer to sell or transfer a vehicle,
the fee for the issuance of each such document shall be one dollar.   IN
LIEU  OF  ISSUING  SUCH  DOCUMENT,  THE COMMISSIONER MAY, BY REGULATION,
REQUIRE THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON SUCH DOCUMENT  BE  TRANSMITTED
TO  THE  COMMISSIONER  ELECTRONICALLY  AND  STORED ELECTRONICALLY BY THE
COMMISSIONER. THE FEE FOR TRANSMITTING SUCH  INFORMATION  ELECTRONICALLY
SHALL  BE  FIVE  DOLLARS. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE THAT SUCH ELEC-
TRONIC TRANSMISSION BE WAIVED WHEN A DEALER SHOWS GOOD  CAUSE  THAT  THE
DEALER CANNOT TRANSMIT THE INFORMATION ELECTRONICALLY. There shall be no
refund  of  registration  fee  or fees for number plates in the event of
suspension, revocation or voluntary cancellation  of  registration.  The
fee  for  any such transfer document issued by the commissioner shall be
refunded only upon the surrender of such document upon voluntary cancel-
lation of registration.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately provided that  the  amend-
ments  to  subdivision  6  of section 415 of the vehicle and traffic law
made by section one of this act shall be subject to the  expiration  and
reversion  of  such  subdivision  pursuant  to section 13 of part U-1 of
chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, as amended,  when  upon  such  date  the
provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.