STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9803

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 9, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. THIELE, GOODELL, CLARK, CONRAD, DARLING, EACHUS,
          JACOBSON, LEVENBERG, OTIS, RAMOS, RIVERA, SHIMSKY, WOERNER,  McDONALD,
          JONES,  E. BROWN,  FRIEND,  ZEBROWSKI,  BEEPHAN,  GALLAHAN, MANKTELOW,
          SIMPSON,  ANGELINO,  GRAY,   MORINELLO,   NORRIS,   TAGUE,   LEMONDES,
          J. M. GIGLIO,  BLANKENBUSH,  HAWLEY,  DiPIETRO, MAHER -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to waiving  the
          registration fee and service charge for distinctive plates for certain
          volunteer  firefighters  and  certain  members  of volunteer ambulance
          services

          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  The  registration  fee  prescribed  by  section four hundred one of this
     7  [chapter] article and [an]  the  initial  one  time  service  charge  of
     8  fifteen  dollars  shall  be  waived  for one set of plates for each such
     9  applicant upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the  appli-
    10  cant has attended twenty-five percent or more of the emergency calls for
    11  the previous year.
    12    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 404-f of the vehicle and traffic law, as
    13  amended  by  chapter  277  of  the  laws  of 1991, is amended to read as
    14  follows:
    15    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    16  in the same manner as other number plates [upon payment of the regular].
    17  The registration fee prescribed by section  four  hundred  one  of  this
    18  [chapter]  article  and  [an]  the  additional  annual service charge of
    19  fifteen dollars shall be waived for one set  of  plates  for  each  such
    20  applicant  upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the appli-
    21  cant has attended twenty-five percent or more of the emergency calls for
    22  the previous year.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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