Bill Text: NY A01091 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates for recipients of the conspicuous service cross or their spouses; requires payment of the regular registration fee and an additional, one-time service charge of ten dollars.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to veterans' affairs [A01091 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A01091-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1091 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 5, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK, ORTIZ, PHEFFER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing distinctive license plates for recipients of the conspicuous service cross 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-x to read as follows: 3 S 404-X. DISTINCTIVE PLATES FOR CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS RECIPIENTS. 4 1. ANY CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS RECIPIENT RESIDING IN THIS STATE OR THE 5 SPOUSE OF ANY SUCH RECIPIENT SHALL, UPON REQUEST, BE ISSUED A LICENSE 6 PLATE BEARING THE WORDS "CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS RECIPIENT". IF A 7 DISTINCTIVE PLATE IS ISSUED TO A CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS RECIPIENT 8 PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, SUCH A DISTINCTIVE PLATE SHALL NOT BE ISSUED 9 TO THE SPOUSE OF SUCH CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS RECIPIENT. APPLICATION 10 FOR SAID LICENSE PLATE SHALL BE FILED WITH THE COMMISSIONER IN SUCH FORM 11 AND DETAIL AS THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PRESCRIBE. 12 2. THE DISTINCTIVE PLATE AUTHORIZED BY THIS SECTION SHALL BE ISSUED 13 UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER, THAT THE APPLICANT OR THE 14 SPOUSE OF THE APPLICANT IS A CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS 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. SUCH ANNUAL SERVICE CHARGE 20 SHALL BE DEPOSITED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED 21 FOUR-OO OF THIS ARTICLE TO THE CREDIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHI- 22 CLES DISTINCTIVE PLATE DEVELOPMENT FUND ESTABLISHED BY SECTION 23 NINETY-FIVE-G OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW AND SHALL BE USED FOR THE EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00540-01-1 A. 1091 2 1 PRODUCTION, DESIGN, ADVERTISING AND MARKETING OF DISTINCTIVE LICENSE 2 PLATES PURSUANT TO SUCH SECTION NINETY-FIVE-G. 3 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 4 it shall have become a law.