Bill Text: NY A05987 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides distinctive license plates for members of the Seabee Veterans of America; allocates funds to offset costs of such license plates.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-16 - held for consideration in transportation [A05987 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05987-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5987
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 26, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. LAWRENCE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation
        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing
          for distinctive license plates for members of the Seabee  Veterans  of
          America
          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 members of the Seabee Veterans of
     4  America. 1. Any member of the Seabee Veterans  of  America  residing  in
     5  this  state  shall,  upon request, be issued a license plate bearing the
     6  Navy Seabee emblem. Application for said license plate  shall  be  filed
     7  with  the commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner shall
     8  prescribe.
     9    2. The distinctive plate authorized in this section  shall  be  issued
    10  upon  proof,  satisfactory  to the commissioner, that the applicant is a
    11  member of the Seabee Veterans of America.
    12    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    13  in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the  regu-
    14  lar  registration  fee  prescribed  by  section four hundred one of this
    15  article, provided, however, that an additional annual service charge  of
    16  fifteen dollars shall be charged for such plate. Provided, however, that
    17  one year after the effective date of this section funds in the amount of
    18  six  thousand  dollars, or so much thereof as may be available, shall be
    19  allocated  to  the  department  to  offset  costs  associated  with  the
    20  production of such license plates.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09627-01-9