Bill Text: NY S02713 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes county clerks to retain a portion of fees collected for motor vehicle related service fees and requires the commissioner to remit such fees to the county clerks on a quarterly basis.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S02713 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S02713-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2713 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 22, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, GALLIVAN, HELMING, O'MARA -- 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 allowing county clerks to retain fees collected for motor vehicle related services through a department of motor vehicles' website The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 205 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by section 3 of part G of chapter 59 of the laws of 3 2008, is amended to read as follows: 4 3. (a) Each such county clerk shall retain from fees collected for any 5 motor vehicle related service described in subdivision one of this 6 section processed by such county clerk an amount based on a percentage 7 of gross receipts collected. For purposes of this section, the term 8 "gross receipts" shall include all fines, fees and penalties collected 9 pursuant to this chapter by a county clerk acting as agent of the 10 commissioner or department of motor vehicles' website, but shall not 11 include any state or local sales or compensating use taxes imposed under 12 or pursuant to the authority of articles twenty-eight and twenty-nine of 13 the tax law and collected by such clerk or department of motor vehicles' 14 website on behalf of the commissioner of taxation and finance. The 15 retention percentage shall be 12.7 percent and shall take effect April 16 first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine; provided, however, the retention 17 percentage shall be thirty percent of the thirty dollar fee established 18 in paragraph (e) of subdivision two of section four hundred ninety-one 19 and paragraph [f-one] (f-1) of subdivision two of section five hundred 20 three of this chapter. 21 (b) The commissioner shall remit on a quarterly basis to each such 22 county clerk from fees collected for any motor vehicle related service 23 described in subdivision one of this section that are processed through EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06213-01-1S. 2713 2 1 the department of motor vehicles' website the retention percentage of 2 gross receipts collected, as such retention percentage is described in 3 paragraph (a) of this subdivision which such county clerk would have 4 been entitled to retain pursuant to this subdivision if such fees had 5 been processed in the county of record of the registrant. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2022; provided, however, that 7 effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule 8 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec- 9 tive date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such 10 effective date.
