A 11682: Enacts the "motorized recreational vehicle identification and accountability act" in relation to requiring the registration and visible identification of certain motorized recreational and personal mobility vehicles.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11682  IN ASSEMBLY September 2, 2026 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Santabar- bara) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring the registration and visible identification of certain motorized recreational and personal mobility vehicles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "motorized recreational vehicle identification and accountability 3 act". 4 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 5 1229-e to read as follows: 6 § 1229-e. Registration of certain motorized recreational and personal 7 mobility vehicles for identification purposes. 1. For the purposes of 8 this section, the term "covered motorized recreational and personal 9 mobility vehicle" or "covered vehicle" shall include off-highway motor- 10 cycles, dirt bikes, motorized minibikes and high-powered electric vehi- 11 cles that are not bicycles with electric assist. 12 2. All covered motorized recreational and personal mobility vehicles 13 shall be registered with the department at the point of sale and shall 14 be issued an identification plate or tag which shall be visibly 15 displayed on such covered vehicle. 16 3. Any dealer or other commercial seller of any covered vehicle, 17 including online sellers delivering covered vehicles into the state of 18 New York, shall submit covered vehicle and purchaser information to the 19 department for purposes of the registration required by this section 20 prior to releasing a covered vehicle to a purchaser. Any private sale or 21 other subsequent transfer of a covered vehicle shall also be reported to 22 the department in order for the department to maintain a current owner- 23 ship record of such covered vehicle. 24 4. No person shall remove, conceal, alter or fraudulently display an 25 identification plate or tag required pursuant to this section, vehicle 26 identification number or serial number of any covered vehicle. Law 27 enforcement shall be authorized to impound any covered vehicle operated EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD16329-01-6 
 A. 11682 2 1 on public property without identification required by this section or 2 with altered or fraudulent identification. 3 5. Registration of covered vehicles pursuant to this section shall be 4 only for identification and accountability purposes. Such registration 5 shall not authorize the operation of any covered vehicle on any public 6 road or in any other location where such operation is otherwise prohib- 7 ited. 8 6. The identification of a covered vehicle registered pursuant to this 9 section by its visible identification plate or tag required by this 10 section as a vehicle operated illegally on a public street, sidewalk or 11 other public property shall not be sufficient evidence to establish that 12 the registered owner of such covered vehicle was operating such covered 13 vehicle. Such owner shall be provided notice that such covered vehicle 14 was identified being operated illegally on a public street, sidewalk or 15 other public property and an opportunity for a hearing to establish that 16 such covered vehicle had been sold, stolen, misidentified or used with- 17 out such owner's authorization. 18 7. The commissioner shall be authorized to adopt any regulations 19 necessary to implement the provisions of this section. 20 § 3. Subdivision 6-a of section 2282 of the vehicle and traffic law, 21 as added by section 1 of part D of chapter 59 of the laws of 2005, is 22 amended to read as follows: 23 6-a. Registration at time of sale. Every all terrain vehicle defined 24 by section twenty-two hundred eighty-one of this article sold by a deal- 25 er or other commercial seller of all terrain vehicles, including an 26 online seller delivering all terrain vehicles into the state of New 27 York, shall be registered at the time of sale of such vehicle prior to 28 being released to the purchaser of such vehicle. Such registration shall 29 be valid until the thirty-first day of August following the date of such 30 sale; provided, however, that any all terrain vehicle sold after April 31 first of each year shall be issued a registration valid until the thir- 32 ty-first day of August in the year following that in which the all 33 terrain vehicle is sold. Any all terrain vehicle purchased for use 34 exclusively outside of the state of New York shall not require registra- 35 tion at the time of purchase, and the purchaser of such all terrain 36 vehicle shall sign a declaration, provided by the dealer, which shall 37 state that such purchaser understands the conditions under which an all 38 terrain vehicle must be registered and the penalty for violation of such 39 registration provisions. Each signed declaration shall be forwarded by 40 the dealer to the commissioner. The form of such declaration shall be 41 provided by the commissioner to each dealer. Any private sale or other 42 subsequent transfer of an all terrain vehicle shall also be reported to 43 the department in order for the department to maintain a current owner- 44 ship record of such all terrain vehicle. 45 § 4. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 46 2292 to read as follows: 47 § 2292. Identification of illegally operated all terrain vehicle. The 48 identification of an all terrain vehicle registered pursuant to the 49 provisions of this article by its registration number as an all terrain 50 vehicle operated illegally on a public street, sidewalk or other public 51 property shall not be sufficient evidence to establish that the regis- 52 tered owner of such all terrain vehicle was operating such all terrain 53 vehicle. Such owner shall be provided notice that such all terrain vehi- 54 cle was identified being operated illegally on a public street, sidewalk 55 or other public property and an opportunity for a hearing to establish 
 A. 11682 3 1 that such all terrain vehicle had been sold, stolen, misidentified or 2 used without such owner's authorization. 3 § 5. Subdivision 1 of section 2283 of the vehicle and traffic law, as 4 added by chapter 671 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows: 5 1. The registration number with indicia of registration assigned to an 6 ATV shall be displayed on the vehicle at all times in such a manner as 7 the commissioner may, by regulation, prescribe. No person shall remove, 8 conceal, alter or fraudulently display a registration number, vehicle 9 identification number or serial number of any all terrain vehicle. Law 10 enforcement shall be authorized to impound any all terrain vehicle oper- 11 ated on public property without such registration number or with altered 12 or fraudulent identification. 13 § 6. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 14 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of 15 motor vehicles is authorized to promulgate any rule or regulation neces- 16 sary to implement the provisions of this act on or before such effective 17 date.