Bill Text: NY A01696 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for distinctive license plates for gold star family members; eliminates the registration fee for gold star mother and gold star family member distinctive license plates.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to transportation [A01696 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01696-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1696
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY, TITONE, RAIA, McKEVITT -- Multi-Sponsored
          by  -- M. of A. SALADINO -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  providing
          distinctive  license plates for gold star family members and eliminat-
          ing the registration fee for gold star mother  and  gold  star  family
          member distinctive license plates
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 404-i of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
     2  chapter 277 of the laws of 1991 and renumbered by  chapter  108  of  the
     3  laws  of  1994,  subdivision  1 as amended by chapter 732 of the laws of
     4  2004 and subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 486 of the laws of 1996, is
     5  amended to read as follows:
     6    § 404-i. Distinctive plates for gold star mothers and gold star  fami-
     7  lies.    1.  Any gold star mother or the spouse of a gold star mother or
     8  any gold star father or the spouse of a gold star father, or  the  widow
     9  or  widower of a fallen service member, or any child, step-child, broth-
    10  er, sister,  step-brother,  step-sister,  or  grandparent  of  a  fallen
    11  service  member  residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a
    12  license plate bearing the words "gold star mother" or "gold  star  fami-
    13  ly",  respectively.    If  a  distinctive plate is issued to a gold star
    14  mother or gold star family member pursuant to this  section,  additional
    15  distinctive  plates  may  be  issued for every vehicle registered in the
    16  name of the gold star mother recipient residing in  this  state  or  the
    17  spouse of such gold star mother, or the gold star family member.  Appli-
    18  cation  for  said  license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in
    19  such form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
    20    2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
    21  satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant or  the  spouse  of
    22  the  applicant  is  a gold star mother or the applicant is any gold star
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01338-01-7
        A. 1696                             2
     1  father or the spouse of a gold star father, or the widow or widower of a
     2  fallen service member, or any child, step-child, brother, sister,  step-
     3  brother, step-sister, or grandparent of a fallen service member.
     4    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
     5  in  the  same manner as other number plates [upon payment of the regular
     6  registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one  of  this  arti-
     7  cle],  provided,  however,  that  no  registration fee or service charge
     8  shall be charged for such plate.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have  become  a  law, provided that effective immediately, the addition,
    11  amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary  for  the
    12  implementation  of  this  act  on  its  effective date is authorized and
    13  directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.