Bill Text: NY S00403 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes a distinctive plate honoring the Boy Scouts of America for which the regular registration fee will apply plus an initial one time service charge of $25.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-24 - PRINT NUMBER 403A [S00403 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S00403-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 403--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ORTT, FUNKE, LARKIN, RANZENHOFER, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Trans- portation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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 establishing a distinctive plate honoring the Boy Scouts 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-z to read as follows: 3 § 404-z. Distinctive Boy Scouts of America plates. 1. Any person 4 residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive 5 plate in support of the Boy Scouts of America of a design approved by 6 the commissioner in consultation with the National Council of the Boy 7 Scouts of America. 8 2. An application for such plate shall be filed with the commissioner 9 in such form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe. 10 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued 11 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular 12 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article 13 and an initial one time service charge of twenty-five dollars shall be 14 charged for such plates. 15 § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-z of 16 the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of this act shall 17 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart- 18 ment of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall 19 be executed by a surety company authorized by the department of finan- 20 cial services to transact business in this state. Provided, however, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04515-02-8S. 403--A 2 1 that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have received prior to 2 plate design, production and issuance at least two hundred orders for 3 such distinctive plate together with the additional annual service 4 charge applicable to each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no 5 such surety bond shall be required. All such service charges shall be 6 deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle 7 and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor vehicles 8 distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g of the 9 state finance law and shall be used for the design, production, adver- 10 tising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance with 11 such section 95-g. 12 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which 13 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two 14 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant 15 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of 16 such plates are sold by such time, such department shall be entitled to 17 recover against the bond in an amount proportionate to such shortfall. 18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 19 section one of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth 20 day after it shall have become a law; provided further, however, that 21 effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule 22 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec- 23 tive date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or 24 before such effective date.
