Bill Text: NY A06160 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Eliminates the registration fees charged for the issuance of volunteer firefighter distinctive license plates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A06160 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06160-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6160

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the issuance
          of distinctive license plates to volunteer firefighters

          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-b of the vehicle  and  traffic
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 277 of the laws of 1991, 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 chapter
     7  and an initial one time service charge of  fifteen  dollars],  provided,
     8  however,  that   no  registration fee or service charge shall be charged
     9  for such plate.
    10    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 404 of the vehicle and traffic  law,  as
    11  amended  by  section  21 of part G of chapter 59 of the laws of 2009, is
    12  amended to read as follows:
    13    1. The commissioner may issue  special  number  plates  to  applicants
    14  therefor  in  the same manner as other number plates are issued pursuant
    15  to this article. Such special number plates shall be  issued  only  upon
    16  payment  of  an  annual service charge of thirty-one dollars and twenty-
    17  five cents in addition to the regular fee  prescribed  by  section  four
    18  hundred one of this article. Application for special number plates shall
    19  be  made  in accordance with regulations promulgated by the commissioner
    20  with respect to issuance of such number plates.  Provided,  however,  in
    21  lieu  of the annual fee specified herein, the commissioner may establish
    22  specific categories of plates for which an annual fee of not  less  than
    23  eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents nor more than thirty-one dollars
    24  and  twenty-five  cents  may  be  charged subject to the approval of the
    25  director of the division of  the  budget.    Notwithstanding  any  other

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06474-01-3
        A. 6160                             2

     1  provision  of this section, the annual service charge shall not apply to
     2  the issuance of special number plates to volunteer firefighters pursuant
     3  to section four hundred four-b  of  this  article.  Notwithstanding  any
     4  inconsistent provision of this section, the difference collected between
     5  the  special  plates fee or service charge set forth in this subdivision
     6  in effect on and after  September  first,  two  thousand  nine  and  the
     7  special  plates  fee  or service charge set forth in this subdivision in
     8  effect prior to such date shall be deposited to the credit of the  dedi-
     9  cated highway and bridge trust fund.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.