NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A8450B
SPONSOR: Bores PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To ensure that all limited use motorcycles are registered at the point
of sale.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section one: amends section 2267-a of the vehicle and traffic law by
adding new subdivisions one through 11, which require that dealers of
limited use motorcycles issue temporary registration tags to those
purchasing such vehicles, only after obtaining from the customer and
submitting to the Department of Motor Vehicles all necessary documenta-
tion and completed forms, in a manner prescribed by the commissioner.
Section two is the effective date.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION (IF APPLICABLE):
Conforming changes to Senate version
JUSTIFICATION:
The use of mopeds, legally known as limited use motorcycles, has risen
dramatically across New York City in the past year, but all too often
they are unregistered and unlicensed as required under state law. Unreg-
istered vehicles can ride with impunity and have endangered pedestrians,
cyclists, and motorists, with some incidents even resulting in fatali-
ties. Unlike other vehicle types, like ATVs, mopeds are not currently
required to be registered at the point of sale. Closing this loophole
and requiring that all mopeds are registered with the Department of
Motor Vehicles at the point of sale would help ensure we have safe
streets and accountability for these vehicles.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Act takes effect on the 180th day after it shall become law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8450--B
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 29, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BORES, SIMONE, EPSTEIN, WEPRIN, COLTON,
SEAWRIGHT, CHANG, BERGER, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, LEVENBERG, TAPIA, SIMON,
FAHY -- 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 -- again
reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
limited use motorcycles to be registered at point of sale
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 2261 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law, as amended by section 19 of part G of chapter 59 of
3 the laws of 2009, is amended and a new subdivision 6 is added to read as
4 follows:
5 (b) The annual fee for the registration, renewal, reregistration or
6 amendment or duplicate of a registration of a limited use motorcycle
7 shall be six dollars and twenty-five cents. Any such registration [will
8 commence], renewal, or reregistration shall take effect and expire on
9 dates to be determined by the commissioner. A fee for a registration for
10 periods of more or less than one year shall not be prorated.
11 6. Registration at time of sale. Every limited use motorcycle, as
12 defined by section one hundred twenty-one-b of this chapter, sold by a
13 dealer shall be registered at the time of sale of such vehicle. Such
14 registration shall take effect and expire on dates to be determined by
15 the commissioner. Any limited use motorcycle purchased for use exclu-
16 sively outside of the state of New York shall not require registration
17 at the time of purchase, and the purchaser of such limited use motorcy-
18 cle shall sign a declaration, provided by the dealer, which shall state
19 that such purchaser understands the conditions under which a limited use
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13236-06-4
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1 motorcycle must be registered and the penalty for violation of such
2 registration provisions. Each signed declaration shall be forwarded by
3 the dealer to the commissioner. The form of such declaration shall be
4 provided by the commissioner to each dealer.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
6 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
7 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
8 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
9 completed on or before such effective date.
