Bill Text: NY A01462 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the continuation of a commercial driver's license after lapse or termination of insurance if a person needs such license to perform his or her employment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to transportation [A01462 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01462-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1462
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 12, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, FINCH, GIGLIO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
         of  A. HAWLEY, MONTESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on
         Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  providing
         for  the  continuation of a commercial driver's license after lapse or
         termination of insurance
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  318 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
    3    16. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISIONS OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE  COMMERCIAL
    4  DRIVER'S  LICENSE  OF  A  PERSON  WHO HAS HAD HIS OR HER REGISTRATION OR
    5  LICENSE REVOKED OR SUSPENDED PURSUANT TO ANY PROVISION OF  THIS  SECTION
    6  SHALL  NOT  BE  REVOKED OR SUSPENDED PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSON HAS FILED
    7  WITH THE COMMISSIONER A STATEMENT, IN A FORM PRESCRIBED BY  THE  COMMIS-
    8  SIONER, INDICATING THAT HE OR SHE NEEDS SUCH COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE
    9  TO  PERFORM  HIS  OR  HER  EMPLOYMENT AND THAT SUCH DRIVER SHALL ONLY BE
   10  ALLOWED TO DRIVE HIS OR HER WORK VEHICLE WHILE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS
   11  OR HER EMPLOYMENT. UPON RECEIPT OF THE FOREGOING STATEMENT  THE  COMMIS-
   12  SIONER  SHALL RESTRICT THE DRIVER TO A COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE UNTIL
   13  NEW PROOF OF FINANCIAL SECURITY HAS BEEN SECURED.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   15  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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