Bill Text: NY S00860 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Creates distinctive license plates for members and supporters of the United States army 10th mountain division.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-02-23 - PRINT NUMBER 860B [S00860 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S00860-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 860--B Cal. No. 535 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 5, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, CROCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, amended on second report, ordered to a third reading, and to be reprinted as amended, retaining its place in the order of third reading -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accord- ance 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 creating distinctive license plates for the United States army 10th mountain division 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 the United States army 10th mountain 4 division. 1. a. Any member of the United States army 10th mountain divi- 5 sion residing in this state, shall, upon request, be issued a license 6 plate bearing the 10th mountain division insignia and the words "Member 7 of the United States Army 10th Mountain Division". Application for such 8 license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and 9 detail as the commissioner shall prescribe. No license plate shall be 10 issued to an applicant without verification that such applicant is a 11 member of the 10th mountain division of the United States army. 12 b. Any person residing in this state, shall, upon request, be issued a 13 license plate bearing the 10th mountain division insignia and the words 14 "Supporter of the United States Army 10th Mountain Division". Applica- 15 tion for such license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such 16 form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe. 17 c. Any veteran of the United States army 10th mountain division resid- 18 ing in this state, shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bear- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06838-08-8S. 860--B 2 1 ing the 10th mountain division insignia and the words "Veteran of the 2 United States Army 10th Mountain Division". Application for such license 3 plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and detail as 4 the commissioner shall prescribe. No license plate shall be issued to 5 an applicant without verification that such applicant owns a registered 6 motor vehicle pursuant to section four hundred one of this article. 7 2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued 8 in the same manner as such other number plates upon the payment of the 9 regular registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this 10 article, provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of 11 twenty dollars shall be charged for such plate. Such annual service 12 charge shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section four 13 hundred four-oo of this article to the credit of the department of motor 14 vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section nine- 15 ty-five-g of the state finance law and shall be used for the production, 16 design, advertising and marketing of distinctive license plates pursuant 17 to such section ninety-five-g provided, however, that annual service 18 charges collected in excess of twenty-five hundred dollars shall be paid 19 by the state comptroller to the northern New York community foundation 20 for their scholarship program. 21 § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-z of 22 the vehicle and traffic law shall only be designed, produced and issued 23 upon the delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a surety bond 24 in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall be executed by a 25 surety company authorized by the department of financial services to 26 transact business in this state. Provided, however, that if the commis- 27 sioner of motor vehicles shall have received prior to plate design, 28 production and issuance at least two hundred orders for such distinctive 29 plate together with the additional annual service charge applicable to 30 each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no such surety bond 31 shall be required. All service charges collected pursuant to this 32 section shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo 33 of the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor 34 vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g 35 of the state finance law and shall be used for the design, production, 36 advertising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance 37 with such section 95-g. 38 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which 39 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two 40 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant 41 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of 42 such plates are sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles 43 shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate 44 to such shortfall. 45 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 46 section one of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth 47 day after it shall have become a law; and provided further, that effec- 48 tive immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or 49 regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective 50 date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before 51 such effective date.
