Bill Text: NY A00669 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes distinctive license plates for recipients of the Bronze or Silver star.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A00669 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00669-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           669

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
          distinctive license plates for recipients of the Bronze or Silver star

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 404-ff to read as follows:
     3    §  404-ff. Distinctive plates for Bronze or Silver star recipients. 1.
     4  Any recipient of a Bronze star or a Silver star residing in  this  state
     5  or  the  spouse  of  any such recipient shall, upon request, be issued a
     6  license plate bearing the words "Bronze star recipient" or "Silver  star
     7  recipient".  If a distinctive plate is issued to a Bronze or Silver star
     8  recipient  pursuant  to this section, such a distinctive plate shall not
     9  be issued to the spouse of such recipient. Application for said  license
    10  plate  shall  be  filed with the commissioner in such form and detail as
    11  the commissioner shall prescribe.
    12    2. The distinctive plate authorized in this section  shall  be  issued
    13  upon  proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant or the
    14  spouse of the applicant is a Bronze or Silver star recipient.
    15    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    16  in the same manner as other number plates upon payment  of  the  regular
    17  registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article,
    18  provided,  however,  that  an  additional one-time service charge of ten
    19  dollars shall be charged for such plate.   Provided, however,  that  one
    20  year  after  the  effective date of this section, funds in the amount of
    21  five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be available, shall  be
    22  allocated  to  the  department  to  offset  costs  associated  with  the
    23  production of such license plates.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    25  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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