Bill Text: NY S02749 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes distinctive license plates for Korean Defense veterans who were awarded the Korean Defense Service Medal, provides that an additional one time service charge of ten dollars shall be charged for such plate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-10 - referred to transportation [S02749 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S02749-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        2749--A
           Cal. No. 650
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 23, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation  --  recom-
         mitted  to  the  Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate
         Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee,  ordered  to
         first  report, amended on first report, ordered to a second report and
         ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  distinctive
         plates for Korean Defense veterans
         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-x to read as follows:
    3    S 404-X. DISTINCTIVE PLATES FOR KOREAN DEFENSE VETERANS. 1. ANY KOREAN
    4  DEFENSE  VETERAN  OR THE SPOUSE OF ANY SUCH VETERAN SHALL, UPON REQUEST,
    5  BE ISSUED A LICENSE PLATE BEARING THE WORDS "KOREAN DEFENSE VETERAN". IF
    6  A DISTINCTIVE PLATE IS ISSUED TO A VETERAN  PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SECTION,
    7  SUCH  A  DISTINCTIVE  PLATE  SHALL  NOT  BE ISSUED TO THE SPOUSE OF SUCH
    8  VETERAN. APPLICATION FOR SAID LICENSE PLATE  SHALL  BE  FILED  WITH  THE
    9  COMMISSIONER   IN  SUCH  FORM  AND  DETAIL  AS  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL
   10  PRESCRIBE.
   11    2. THE DISTINCTIVE PLATE AUTHORIZED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION
   12  SHALL BE ISSUED UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER,  THAT  THE
   13  APPLICANT OR THE SPOUSE OF THE APPLICANT IS A KOREAN DEFENSE VETERAN.
   14    3. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "KOREAN DEFENSE VETERAN" SHALL MEAN A
   15  PERSON  WHO  IS A RESIDENT OF THIS STATE, WHO SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES
   16  OF THE UNITED STATES, WHO WAS AWARDED THE KOREAN DEFENSE SERVICE  MEDAL,
   17  AND WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED FROM THE MILITARY.
   18    4. A DISTINCTIVE PLATE ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE ISSUED
   19  IN  THE  SAME  MANNER AS OTHER NUMBER PLATES UPON PAYMENT OF THE REGULAR
   20  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.
                                                                  LBD07239-02-4
       S. 2749--A                          2
    1  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  AN  ADDITIONAL ONE TIME SERVICE CHARGE OF TEN
    2  DOLLARS SHALL BE CHARGED FOR SUCH PLATE.
    3    5.  NOTHING  CONTAINED  HEREIN SHALL REQUIRE THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL
    4  NUMBER PLATE UNDER THIS SECTION UNLESS  THE  COMMISSIONER  IS  SATISFIED
    5  THAT  THE  AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF ANNUAL SERVICE CHARGES COLLECTED PURSUANT
    6  TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION WILL BE SUFFICIENT  TO  RECOVER  THE
    7  COSTS OF THE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF SUCH SPECIAL PLATES.
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    9  it shall have become a law.