2013 New York Consolidated Laws
VAT - Vehicle & Traffic
Title 3 - SAFETY RESPONSIBILITY; FINANCIAL SECURITY; EQUIPMENT; INSPECTION; SIZE AND WEIGHT; AND OTHER PROVISIONS
Article 7 - (330 - 368) MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY RESPONSIBILITY ACT
330 - Commissioner to administer article; may require proof; court review.

 
    § 330. Commissioner  to  administer  article; may require proof; court
  review. (a) The commissioner shall administer and enforce the provisions
  of this article.
    (b) The commissioner is hereby authorized to adopt  and  enforce  such
  regulations as may be necessary for the administration of this article.
    (c)  Upon  any  reasonable  ground,  appearing  on  the records of the
  bureau, the  commissioner  may  suspend  or  revoke  the  operator's  or
  chauffeur's  license of any person and may suspend or revoke any and all
  of the registration certificates or registration plates  for  any  motor
  vehicle  and  may  refuse to issue to any such person any new or renewal
  license or to register in the name of  such  person  any  motor  vehicle
  unless and until such person gives proof of his financial responsibility
  in the future as hereinafter provided in this article.
    Any  person  furnishing  proof of financial responsibility pursuant to
  this subdivision may be relieved from continuing to furnish  such  proof
  in  the discretion of the commissioner provided three years have elapsed
  since such proof was first furnished during which period such person has
  not been convicted of, or forfeited bail given on  being  charged  with,
  any of the offenses specified in subdivision two of section five hundred
  ten  of  this chapter and no charges of any of such offenses are pending
  against such person. The affidavit of such person shall be  accepted  as
  proof  of  the  facts  therein stated, in the absence of evidence to the
  contrary before the commissioner.
    (d) Any person aggrieved by an order or act of the commissioner  under
  this  section  or  under  provisions  of  this  article,  may maintain a
  proceeding under article seventy-eight of the  civil  practice  law  and
  rules  to  review,  but  the commencement of such a proceeding shall not
  suspend the order or act unless a stay thereof shall be allowed by  said
  court pending final determination of the review.
    (e) The provisions of subdivision seven of section five hundred ten of
  this chapter shall apply to a suspension under this article.