S 5736: Relates to eligibility for designated disability license plates for parents of severely disabled children.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5736 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 28, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to special license plates for vehicles owned or used by people with disabilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by chapter 191 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 2. Registration of vehicles owned or used by severely disabled 5 persons. The commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicles, including 6 any van or pick-up truck used for transporting persons with disabilities 7 or any specialized vehicle, as defined by paragraph b of subdivision 8 sixteen of section four hundred one of this article, which is not used 9 for commercial purposes, owned by such persons, or the parents or guard- 10 ians of such persons, a distinctive number and issue and deliver in such 11 manner as the commissioner may select to the owner a certification of 12 registration, in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe and two 13 number plates, called disabled person plates. Said disabled person 14 plates shall conform to the requirements of section four hundred one of 15 this [chapter] article, but shall bear distinctive marks to distinguish 16 them from number plates to be issued to other persons, qualifying under 17 this chapter. The commissioner, in [his] such commissioner's discretion, 18 may issue, for any registration year, only one plate as a set for a 19 motor vehicle, in which event a set of disabled person plates for a 20 motor vehicle shall consist of one plate. Where a severely disabled 21 person, or by the parents or guardians of such persons, owns more than 22 one vehicle and such vehicle or vehicles is or are used by severely 23 disabled members of the owner's family who reside with the owner, the 24 commissioner shall issue one set of plates for each additional vehicle 25 owned or used by such severely disabled person, or by the parents or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05124-01-5 
 S. 5736 2 1 guardians of such persons, provided that such owner or user, or the 2 child of such owner or user, qualifies as a severely disabled person in 3 the manner required by this section. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.