Bill Text: NY A10251 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for the issuance of distinctive license plates to the spouse of a congressional medal of honor recipient, and the transfer of distinctive license plates issued to congressional medal of honor recipients who are now deceased to their surviving spouse.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-24 - print number 10251a [A10251 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10251-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10251--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2022
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at request of M. of A. Clark,
          Jensen) -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Transportation
          --  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
          license plates issued to congressional medal of honor recipients

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as  added  by
     2  chapter 486 of the laws of 1996, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 415
     3  of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
     4    §  404-p.  Distinctive plates for congressional medal of honor recipi-
     5  ents. 1. Any congressional medal of honor  recipient  residing  in  this
     6  state,  or  the  spouse of any   such recipient, shall, upon request, be
     7  issued a license plate bearing the words "congressional medal of honor".
     8  Application for said license plate shall be filed with the  commissioner
     9  in such form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
    10    2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
    11  satisfactory  to the commissioner, that the applicant is a congressional
    12  medal of honor recipient.
    13    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    14  in the same manner as other number plates, provided,  however,  that  no
    15  registration  fee or service charge shall be charged for such plate.  No
    16  registration fee or service charge shall be charged  for  plates  trans-
    17  ferred  to a surviving spouse, pursuant to the provisions of subdivision
    18  four of this section.
    19    4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,  the  commis-
    20  sioner  shall  transfer  a  distinctive  plate  issued  pursuant to this
    21  section to the surviving spouse of a  deceased  congressional  medal  of
    22  honor  recipient if such surviving spouse so requests within one hundred
    23  eighty days following the death of such  congressional  medal  of  honor
    24  recipient,  or  within  one hundred eighty days of the effective date of
    25  this subdivision where  such  congressional  medal  of  honor  recipient
    26  predeceased  such effective date.  The commissioner shall promulgate any

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  rules or regulations necessary to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this
     2  subdivision.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     5  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
     6  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
     7  on or before such effective date.