A 4049: Directs a pilot program for the use of digital license plates on motor vehicles.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4049 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to a pilot program for the use of digital license plates; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 402 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows: 3 9. (a) The commissioner shall institute a pilot program to permit the 4 owner of a registered motor vehicle to display a digital number plate in 5 lieu of one or both of the plates issued under this section. 6 (b) The commissioner, in consultation with the division of state 7 police, shall adopt regulations for the use of digital number plates. 8 Such regulations need not conform to the requirements of this section as 9 to form of plates but shall: (i) set standards necessary for the safe 10 use of digital number plates; (ii) establish requirements for product 11 oversight and consumer support; (iii) establish requirements for product 12 size, design, display, and functionality; (iv) establish a process for 13 approval of digital number plates products for statewide use; (v) set 14 protocols for data sharing, privacy, and security; (vi) establish the 15 types of number plates that are eligible to use as digital number 16 plates; and (vii) set reporting requirements for companies that sell 17 digital number plates to the public. 18 (c) The registration number and expiration date shall be clearly visi- 19 ble at a distance of one hundred feet in normal sunlight. 20 (d) Digital number plates need not display more than one color. 21 (e) For the purposes of this subdivision "digital number plate" means 22 an electronic display that is mounted on a motor vehicle in the place 23 of, and that serves the function of, a number plate issued by the 24 department under this section. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04040-01-5 
 A. 4049 2 1 § 2. The commissioner of motor vehicles shall review the implementa- 2 tion of the pilot program authorizing the use of digital plates within 3 one year after the effective date of this act. Such review shall include 4 comments and recommendations solicited from the division of state police 5 and other law enforcement agencies. Within eighteen months after the 6 effective date of this act the commissioner shall prepare a report based 7 on the review and submit the report to the legislature. 8 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 9 deemed repealed two years after such effective date.