Bill Text: NY A03156 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Codifies distinctive plates for emergency medical technician paramedics and eliminates such plate's annual service charge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 20-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-16 - held for consideration in transportation [A03156 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03156-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3156
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BYRNE, MORINELLO, RAIA, BRABENEC, RA, McDONOUGH,
          M. L. MILLER, BLANKENBUSH, ARROYO, B. MILLER, MIKULIN, SMITH  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to codifying
          distinctive plates for emergency  medical  technician  paramedics  and
          eliminating the annual service charge for such plates
          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 emergency medical technician paramed-
     4  ics.  1.  Any  emergency  medical technician paramedics residing in this
     5  state shall, upon request, be issued a license plate  bearing  the  word
     6  "Paramedic".  Application for said license plate shall be filed with the
     7  commissioner  in  such  form  and  detail  as  the  commissioner   shall
     8  prescribe.
     9    2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
    10  satisfactory  to  the  commissioner,  that the applicant is an emergency
    11  medical technician paramedic.
    12    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    13  in the same manner as other number plates  upon  payment  of  the  sixty
    14  dollar  registration  fee,  provided,  however,  that  no annual service
    15  charge shall be charged for such plate.
    16    § 2. Distinctive plates issued prior to the effective date of this act
    17  bearing the word "paramedic" shall be considered  to  have  been  issued
    18  under  section 404-ff of the vehicle and traffic law and all such plates
    19  issued after the effective date of this act shall  be  issued  with  the
    20  same  issuance  requirements, fees and service charges as a plate issued
    21  under such section.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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