MTV-01-14-00006-P Personalized Plates for Historical Motor Vehicles

1/8/14 N.Y. St. Reg. MTV-01-14-00006-P

NEW YORK STATE REGISTER

VOLUME XXXVI, ISSUE 1

January 08, 2014

RULE MAKING ACTIVITIES

DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES

PROPOSED RULE MAKING

NO HEARING(S) SCHEDULED

 

I.D No. MTV-01-14-00006-P

Personalized Plates for Historical Motor Vehicles

PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:

Proposed Action:

This is a consensus rule making to amend Part 16 of Title 15 NYCRR.

Statutory authority:

Vehicle and Traffic Law, section 404

Subject:

Personalized plates for historical motor vehicles.

Purpose:

To permit the issuance of personalized plates to persons who own historical motor vehicles.

Text of proposed rule:

Subdivision (c) of Part 16.5 is repealed, and subdivisions (d), (e) and (f) are relettered (c), (d) and (e):

No plate shall be issued under this Part which:

(a) does not have at least one letter. This provision shall not apply to plates issued to public officers.

(b) has numbers and letters, or any combination thereof, arranged in a format reserved for issuance to specific classes of vehicles other than passenger vehicles.

[(c) is assigned for issuance to historical motor vehicles.

(d)] (c) consists of six numbers followed by one letter.

[(e)] (d) is, in the discretion of the commissioner, obscene, lewd, lascivious, derogatory to a particular ethnic or other group, or patently offensive.

[(f)] (e) would lead one to believe that the owner of a particular vehicle is connected with or operating in an official capacity for a governmental organization or function.

Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained from:

Heidi Bazicki, Department of Motor Vehicles, 6 Empire State Plaza, Rm. 522A, Albany, NY 12228, [phone], email: [e-mail]

Data, views or arguments may be submitted to:

Ida L. Traschen, Department of Motor Vehicles, 6 Empire State Plaza, Rm. 522A, Albany, NY 12228, [phone], email: [e-mail]

Public comment will be received until:

45 days after publication of this notice.

This rule was not under consideration at the time this agency submitted its Regulatory Agenda for publication in the Register.

Consensus Rule Making Determination

Section 404 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law authorizes the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles to issue special number plates upon payment of the appropriate fees. Part 16 of the Commissioner’s Regulations establishes the criteria for the issuance of special number plates, which include personalized plates.

Since 2010, the Department has been issuing personalized plates to the owners of historical motor vehicles. The Department has issued over 500 personalized plates for such motor vehicles. Currently, Section 16.5 prohibits the issuance of personalized plates for historical vehicles. This amendment makes conforming amendments to Section 16.5 to reflect the Department’s current practice of issuing personalized plates to owners of historical vehicles.

Because this proposed rule is a non-controversial, minor amendment, a consensus rule is appropriate.

Job Impact Statement

A Job Impact Statement is not submitted with this rule because it will not have an adverse impact on job creation or development.