Bill Text: NY S02564 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates for recipients of the conspicuous service cross or their spouses; requires payment of the regular registration fee and an additional, one-time service charge of ten dollars.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-08-21 - SIGNED CHAP.232 [S02564 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02564-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2564--C 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- commit- tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom- mitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- 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 authorizing distinctive license plates for recipients of the conspicuous service cross 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-y to read as follows: 3 § 404-y. Distinctive plates for conspicuous service cross recipients. 4 1. Any conspicuous service cross recipient residing in this state or the 5 spouse of any such recipient shall, upon request, be issued a license 6 plate bearing the words "conspicuous service cross recipient". If a 7 distinctive plate is issued to a conspicuous service cross recipient 8 pursuant to this section, such a distinctive plate shall not be issued 9 to the spouse of such conspicuous service cross recipient. Application 10 for said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form 11 and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe. 12 2. The distinctive plate authorized in subdivision one of this section 13 shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the 14 applicant or the spouse of the applicant is a conspicuous service cross 15 recipient. 16 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued 17 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular 18 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00264-04-7S. 2564--C 2 1 provided, however, that an additional, one-time service charge of ten 2 dollars shall be charged for such plate. 3 § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-y of 4 the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of this act shall 5 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart- 6 ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand 7 dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the 8 department of financial services to transact business in this state. 9 Provided, however, that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have 10 received prior to plate design, production and issuance of at least two 11 hundred orders for such distinctive plate together with the additional 12 one-time service charge applicable to each such order, which shall be 13 non-refundable, no such surety bond shall be required. All service 14 charges collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited pursuant 15 to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle and traffic law to 16 the credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate devel- 17 opment fund established by section 95-g of the state finance law and 18 shall be used for the design, production, advertising and distribution 19 of distinctive license plates in accordance with such section 95-g. 20 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which 21 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale, two 22 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant 23 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of 24 such plates are sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles 25 shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate 26 to such shortfall. 27 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 28 section one of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth 29 day after it shall have become a law; provided, further, however, that 30 effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule 31 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec- 32 tive date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or 33 before such effective date.
