A11604 • 2025

Limits the availability of certain special number plates

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Sponsor: Eddie Gibbs
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Limits the availability of certain special number plates

Limits the availability of certain special number plates Requires special number plates reserved for elected public officers to only be available to such elected public officers during their term of office and must be surrendered to the department upon the end of such term.

What This Bill Does

Limits the availability of certain special number plates Requires special number plates reserved for elected public officers to only be available to such elected public officers during their term of office and must be surrendered to the department upon the end of such term.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Assembly
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

Official Summary Text

Limits the availability of certain special number plates
Requires special number plates reserved for elected public officers to only be available to such elected public officers during their term of office and must be surrendered to the department upon the end of such term.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11604

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      June 5, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gibbs) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to limiting the
          availability of certain special number plates

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  404 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  SPECIAL
     4  NUMBER  PLATES RESERVED FOR ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICERS SHALL ONLY BE AVAIL-
     5  ABLE TO SUCH ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICERS DURING THEIR  TERM  OF  OFFICE  AND
     6  SHALL BE SURRENDERED TO THE DEPARTMENT UPON THE END OF SUCH TERM.
     7    § 2. Section 411-a of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
     8  a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     9    2-A.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, SPECIAL
    10  NUMBER PLATES RESERVED FOR ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICERS SHALL ONLY BE  AVAIL-
    11  ABLE  TO  SUCH  ELECTED  PUBLIC OFFICERS DURING THEIR TERM OF OFFICE AND
    12  SHALL BE SURRENDERED TO THE DEPARTMENT UPON THE END OF SUCH TERM.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    15  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    16  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    17  on or before such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16035-01-6