A 5179: Requires all vehicles that are capable of traveling over twenty-five miles per hour to be registered and licensed with the department of motor vehicles.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5179 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 12, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NOVAKHOV -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring the registration and licensing of vehicles that have the ability to travel over twenty-five miles per hour The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that unregistered 2 and unlicensed vehicles can pose a threat to public safety and may be 3 used for criminal activity. It is necessary to regulate the operation of 4 vehicles on public roads and highways in order to ensure public safety 5 and maintain the integrity of the transportation system. Vehicles that 6 can travel over twenty-five miles per hour are capable of high-speed 7 operation and may require special handling and safety considerations. 8 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 9 1229-e to read as follows: 10 § 1229-e. Registration and licensing of vehicles that travel over 11 twenty-five miles per hour. All vehicles that are capable of traveling 12 over twenty-five miles per hour shall be registered pursuant to title 13 four or eleven of this chapter and issued a plate number by the depart- 14 ment. No person shall operate a vehicle unless such vehicle has been 15 registered with the department and has a number plate issued by the 16 commissioner with a number corresponding to that of the certificate of 17 registration. 18 2. Such number plates shall be of such material, form, design and 19 dimensions and contain or set forth such distinguishing number or other 20 identification marks as the commissioner shall prescribe, provided, 21 however, that there shall be at all times a marked contrast between the 22 color of the number plates and that of the numerals or letters thereon. 23 3. Each such number plate shall be conspicuously displayed and secure- 24 ly fastened on the vehicle. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08970-01-5 
 A. 5179 2 1 4. The fee for such registration and number plates shall be the same 2 as set forth in section four hundred one of this chapter. 3 5. Any individual who operates a vehicle that is not registered and 4 licensed as required by this section shall be subject to penalties and 5 fines set forth in subdivision eighteen of section four hundred one of 6 this chapter. 7 § 3. This act shall take effect one hundred days after it shall have 8 become a law and shall apply to all vehicles operating on public roads 9 and highways within the jurisdiction of the state of New York.