Bill Text: NY A03844 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Codifies distinctive plates for emergency medical technician paramedics and eliminates such plate's annual service charge.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 19-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A03844 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A03844-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3844 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BYRNE, ASHBY, BLANKENBUSH, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO, J. M. GIGLIO, HAWLEY, MANKTELOW, McDONOUGH, MIKULIN, B. MILLER, M. MILLER, MORINELLO, RA, SALKA, SCHMITT, SMITH, WALCZYK -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. BYRNES -- 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. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03605-02-1A. 3844 2 1 § 3. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of 2 the vehicle and traffic law shall only be designed, produced and issued 3 upon the delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a surety bond 4 in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall be executed by a 5 surety company authorized by the department of financial services to 6 transact business in this state. Provided, however, that if the commis- 7 sioner of motor vehicles shall have received prior to plate design, 8 production and issuance at least two hundred orders for such distinctive 9 plate together with the additional annual service charge applicable to 10 each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no such surety bond 11 shall be required. All service charges collected pursuant to this 12 section shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo 13 of the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor 14 vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g 15 of the state finance law and shall be used for the design, production, 16 advertising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance 17 with such section 95-g. 18 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which 19 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two 20 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant 21 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of 22 such plates are sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles 23 shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate 24 to such shortfall. 25 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
