Bill Text: NY A03884 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 19-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A03884 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03884-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3884

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BYRNE, ASHBY, BLANKENBUSH, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO,
          DiPIETRO, MANKTELOW, McDONOUGH, MIKULIN, B. MILLER,  M. MILLER,  MORI-
          NELLO, RA, SALKA, SCHMITT, SMITH, TAGUE, WALCZYK -- Multi-Sponsored by
          --  M.  of  A.    HAWLEY -- 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 technicians 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  technicians.    1.
     4  Any  emergency  medical  technicians  residing in this state shall, upon
     5  request, be issued a license plate bearing the words "Emergency  Medical
     6  Technician".  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.
    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 words "Emergency Medical Technician" shall be considered to
    18  have been issued under section 404-ff of the vehicle and traffic law and
    19  all such plates issued after the effective date of  this  act  shall  be
    20  issued with the same issuance requirements, fees, and service charges as
    21  a plate issued under such section.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03611-02-1
        A. 3884                             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.