Bill Text: NY S00929 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a vertical form of a license or identification card for persons under age 21.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S00929 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S00929-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          929
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- 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  the  issu-
         ance,  form  and  expiration  of licenses and identification cards for
         persons less than twenty-one years of age
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 504 of the vehicle and traffic law
    2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
    3    (C)  EVERY  LICENSE  OR  RENEWAL  THEREOF ISSUED TO A PERSON LESS THAN
    4  TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE SHALL BE PORTRAIT OR VERTICAL IN FORM AND  EVERY
    5  LICENSE OR RENEWAL THEREOF ISSUED TO A PERSON TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE OR
    6  OVER SHALL BE LANDSCAPE OR HORIZONTAL IN FORM. IN THE CASE OF A LICENSEE
    7  WHO  IS  LESS  THAN  TWENTY-ONE  YEARS  OF AGE, THE LICENSE ISSUED SHALL
    8  CONTAIN THE DATE ON WHICH THE LICENSEE WILL BECOME TWENTY-ONE  YEARS  OF
    9  AGE.
   10    S  2.  Subdivision  1 of section 503 of the vehicle and traffic law is
   11  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   12    (C) A LICENSE ISSUED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (C) OF SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF
   13  SECTION FIVE HUNDRED FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL EXPIRE ON THE LICENSEE'S
   14  TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY UNLESS OTHERWISE SUSPENDED OR REVOKED.
   15    S  3.  Subdivision  3 of section 490 of the vehicle and traffic law is
   16  amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
   17    (D) EVERY IDENTIFICATION CARD OR RENEWAL THEREOF ISSUED  TO  A  PERSON
   18  LESS  THAN TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE SHALL BE PORTRAIT OR VERTICAL IN FORM
   19  AND EVERY IDENTIFICATION CARD OR RENEWAL  THEREOF  ISSUED  TO  A  PERSON
   20  TWENTY-ONE  YEARS  OF  AGE  OR  OVER SHALL BE LANDSCAPE OR HORIZONTAL IN
   21  FORM. IN THE CASE OF A PERSON WHO IS LESS THAN TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF  AGE,
   22  THE  IDENTIFICATION  CARD  ISSUED  SHALL  CONTAIN  THE DATE ON WHICH THE
   23  PERSON WILL BECOME TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03651-01-1
       S. 929                              2
    1    S 4. Subdivision 1 of section 491 of the vehicle and traffic  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  580  of  the  laws  of 1994, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    1.  Period of validity. An identification card shall be valid from the
    5  date of issuance until the date of expiration determined by the  commis-
    6  sioner,  except  that  (a) any person sixty-two years of age or older or
    7  (b) any recipient of supplemental security income  benefits  defined  in
    8  section  two hundred eight of the social services law, shall be eligible
    9  for a card which expires ten years after  the  date  of  issuance.  Such
   10  dates  of  issuance  and expiration shall be noted on the identification
   11  card. However, the prior identification card shall expire on the date of
   12  issuance of a renewal of such prior identification card. The commission-
   13  er may extend the period of validity of  an  identification  card  in  a
   14  manner  and form prescribed by the commissioner.  AN IDENTIFICATION CARD
   15  ISSUED TO A PERSON PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (D)  OF  SUBDIVISION  THREE  OF
   16  SECTION  FOUR  HUNDRED  NINETY  OF  THIS  ARTICLE,  SHALL  EXPIRE ON THE
   17  PERSON'S TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY UNLESS OTHERWISE SUSPENDED OR REVOKED.
   18    S 5. The department  of  motor  vehicles  shall  make  all  reasonable
   19  efforts to replace licenses and identification cards issued prior to the
   20  effective  date of this act to persons less than twenty-one years of age
   21  within eighteen months of the effective date of this act.
   22    S 6. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   23  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
   24  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
   25  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
   26  authorized and directed to be made  and  completed  on  or  before  such
   27  effective date.