Bill Text: NY A06569 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Authorizes the issuance of distinctive legion of valor license plates for individuals who have received the army medal of honor, navy medal of honor, air force medal of honor, army distinguished service cross, navy cross, coast guard cross, or air force cross.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 16-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-05 - held for consideration in transportation [A06569 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06569-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6569--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 9, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, McDONOUGH, LAWRENCE, M. G. MILLER,
          ERRIGO, BARCLAY, DiPIETRO,  COLTON,  GUNTHER,  HAWLEY,  GIGLIO,  RAIA,
          BLAKE,  FINCH, STEC, B. MILLER, MORINELLO, BRABENEC -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  CURRAN, M. L. MILLER, THIELE -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee  on
          Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to distinctive
          plates for legion of valor recipients
          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-z to read as follows:
     3    § 404-z. Distinctive plates for legion of  valor  recipients.  1.  Any
     4  person  who  is  a  recipient  of the army medal of honor, navy medal of
     5  honor, air force medal of honor, army distinguished service cross,  navy
     6  cross,  coast  guard  cross,  or  air force cross residing in this state
     7  shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing the words "legion
     8  of valor" and depicting the individual's military award decal.  Applica-
     9  tion for said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such
    10  form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
    11    2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
    12  satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant is an army medal of
    13  honor, navy medal of honor, air force medal of honor, army distinguished
    14  service cross, navy cross, coast guard cross, or air force cross recipi-
    15  ent.
    16    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    17  in  the  same  manner as other number plates, provided, however, that no
    18  registration fee or service charge shall be charged for such plate.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09824-03-8

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     1    § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section  404-z  of
     2  the  vehicle  and  traffic law as added by section one of this act shall
     3  only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to  the  depart-
     4  ment of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall
     5  be  executed  by a surety company authorized by the department of finan-
     6  cial services to transact business in  this  state.  Provided,  however,
     7  that  if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have received prior to
     8  plate design, production and issuance at least two  hundred  orders  for
     9  such  distinctive  plate  together  with  the  additional annual service
    10  charge applicable to each such order, which shall be non-refundable,  no
    11  such  surety  bond shall be required.  All such service charges shall be
    12  deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo  of  the  vehicle
    13  and  traffic  law  to  the  credit  of  the department of motor vehicles
    14  distinctive plate development fund established by section  95-g  of  the
    15  state  finance  law and shall be used for the design, production, adver-
    16  tising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance with
    17  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, such department shall be entitled to
    23  recover against the bond in an amount proportionate to such shortfall.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    25  section  one  of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth
    26  day after it shall have become a law; provided  further,  however,  that
    27  effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
    28  or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
    29  tive  date  is  authorized  and  directed to be made and completed on or
    30  before such effective date.
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