Bill Text: NY A01169 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to distinctive license plates for society for the prevention of cruelty to animals officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A01169 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01169-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1169

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  distinctive
          license  plates  for  society for the prevention of cruelty to animals
          officers

          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 society for the prevention of cruelty
     4  to animals officers. 1. Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals
     5  officers in this state or the spouse of  any  such  member  shall,  upon
     6  request,  be  issued a license plate bearing the letters "S.P.C.A". If a
     7  distinctive plate is issued to any such member pursuant to this section,
     8  such a distinctive plate shall not be  issued  to  the  spouse  of  such
     9  member.  Application  for  such  license  plate  shall be filed with the
    10  commissioner  in  such  form  and  detail  as  the  commissioner   shall
    11  prescribe, and shall be verified annually by the applicant.
    12    2. The distinctive plate authorized in subdivision one of this section
    13  shall  be  issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the
    14  applicant or the spouse of the applicant is presently a society for  the
    15  prevention of cruelty to animals officers.
    16    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    17  in  the  same  manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
    18  registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this  article
    19  and an initial one time service charge of fifteen dollars.
    20    §  2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of
    21  the vehicle and traffic law shall only be designed, produced and  issued
    22  upon  the  delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a surety bond
    23  in the amount of $6,000, which shall be executed  by  a  surety  company
    24  authorized  by the department of financial services to transact business

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01232-01-3
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     1  in this state.  Provided, however, that if  the  commissioner  of  motor
     2  vehicles shall have received prior to plate design, production and issu-
     3  ance  at  least  200 orders for such distinctive plate together with the
     4  additional  annual  service  charge applicable to each such order, which
     5  shall be non-refundable, no such surety  bond  shall  be  required.  All
     6  service  charges  collected  pursuant to this section shall be deposited
     7  pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle and  traffic
     8  law  to the credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate
     9  development fund established by section 95-g of the  state  finance  law
    10  and  shall  be used for the design, production, advertising and distrib-
    11  ution of distinctive license plates  in  accordance  with  such  section
    12  95-g.
    13    2.  If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
    14  distinctive plates in the series are first available for  sale,  200  or
    15  more  sets  of  such  plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant to this
    16  section shall be discontinued. If fewer than 200 sets of such plates are
    17  sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles shall be entitled to
    18  recover against the bond in an amount proportionate to such shortfall.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    21  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    22  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    23  completed on or before such effective date.