Bill Text: NY A05677 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Discontinues service fees for distinctive license plates issued to veterans.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 17-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to transportation [A05677 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A05677-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5677
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 3, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC, McKEVITT, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, GRAF,
COLTON, HAWLEY, SALADINO, CORWIN, FINCH, TENNEY, BARCLAY, DUPREY,
LUPINACCI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO, GIGLIO, McLAUGH-
LIN, RA, RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transpor-
tation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to discontinu-
ing service fees for distinctive license plates issued to veterans
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 404-h of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 415 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read
3 as follows:
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 article
7 [provided, however, that an additional one-time service charge of ten
8 dollars shall be charged for such plate].
9 S 2. Subdivision 4 of section 404-j of the vehicle and traffic law, as
10 amended by chapter 415 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as
11 follows:
12 4. Fee. A special plate and registration issued pursuant to this
13 section shall be issued upon payment of the regular registration fee
14 prescribed by section four hundred one of this article [provided, howev-
15 er, that an additional one-time service charge of ten dollars shall be
16 charged for such plate].
17 S 3. Subdivision 3 of section 404-k of the vehicle and traffic law, as
18 amended by chapter 415 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as
19 follows:
20 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
21 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
22 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 [provided, however, that an additional one-time service charge of ten
2 dollars shall be charged for such plate].
3 S 4. Subdivision 3 of section 404-v of the vehicle and traffic law, as
4 added by chapter 389 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
5 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
6 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
7 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this arti-
8 cle[, provided, however, that an additional one-time service charge of
9 ten dollars shall be charged for such plate. Provided, however, that one
10 year after the effective date of this section funds in the amount of
11 five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be available, shall be
12 allocated from such funds to the department to offset costs associated
13 with the production of such license plates].
14 S 5. Subdivision 3 of section 404-w of the vehicle and traffic law, as
15 added by chapter 105 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
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 arti-
19 cle[, provided, however, that an additional one-time service charge of
20 ten dollars shall be charged for such plate].
21 S 6. Subdivision 4 of section 404-w of the vehicle and traffic law, as
22 added by chapter 493 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
23 4. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
24 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
25 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article
26 [provided, however, that an additional one time service charge of ten
27 dollars shall be charged for such plate].
28 S 7. Subdivision 1-a of section 404 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
29 added by chapter 415 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
30 1-a. The commissioner may issue special number plates to applicants
31 who are members of veterans organizations in the same manner as other
32 number plates are issued pursuant to this article. Such special number
33 plates shall be issued only upon (a) payment of a one-time service
34 charge of ten dollars in addition to the regular registration fee
35 prescribed by section four hundred one of this article, PROVIDED THAT
36 SUCH SERVICE CHARGE SHALL BE WAIVED FOR ANY APPLICANT WHO HAS BEEN A
37 MEMBER OF THE VETERANS ORGANIZATION FOR FIVE OR MORE YEARS, and (b)
38 submission of proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the appli-
39 cant is presently a member of the veterans organization for which such
40 plate is requested. [Such membership shall be verified annually by the
41 applicant.] Application for such plates shall be made in accordance with
42 regulations promulgated by the commissioner with respect to the issuance
43 of such plates. Provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall
44 be deemed to supersede the provisions of section four hundred four-d,
45 four hundred four-e, four hundred four-h, four hundred four-i, four
46 hundred four-j, four hundred four-k or four hundred four-p of this arti-
47 cle.
48 S 8. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
49 have become a law.
