Bill Text: NY S02824 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for distinctive plates to be issued for members of the New York city fire riders motorcycle club.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-06 - referred to transportation [S02824 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02824-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2824

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  creating
          distinctive plates for the New York city fire riders motorcycle club

          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-ff to read as follows:
     3    §  404-ff. Distinctive plates for New York city fire riders motorcycle
     4  club. 1. Any member of the New York city  fire  riders  motorcycle  club
     5  shall,  upon  request,  be issued a license plate bearing the words "NYC
     6  Fire Riders". Application for said license plate shall be filed with the
     7  commissioner  in  such  form  and  detail  as  the  commissioner   shall
     8  prescribe.
     9    2.  A  distinctive plate authorized by subdivision one of this section
    10  shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner,  that  the
    11  applicant is a member of the New York city fire riders motorcycle club.
    12    3. For the purposes of this section, "member of the New York city fire
    13  riders  motorcycle  club"  shall mean a person who is a resident of this
    14  state, who is an active or retired uniformed member of the New York city
    15  fire department and who holds an active membership in the New York  city
    16  fire riders motorcycle club.
    17    4. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    18  in  the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regu-
    19  lar registration fee prescribed by section  four  hundred  one  of  this
    20  article,  provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of
    21  twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such plate.
    22    § 2.  (a) A distinctive plate established pursuant to  section  404-ff
    23  of  the  vehicle  and  traffic  law shall only be designed, produced and
    24  issued upon the delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a surety
    25  bond in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall be executed by a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02322-01-3
        S. 2824                             2

     1  surety company authorized by the department  of  financial  services  to
     2  transact  business in this state. Provided, however, that if the commis-
     3  sioner of motor vehicles shall have  received  prior  to  plate  design,
     4  production and issuance at least two hundred orders for such distinctive
     5  plate  together  with the additional annual service charge applicable to
     6  each such order, which shall be  non-refundable,  no  such  surety  bond
     7  shall  be  required.  All  service  charges  collected  pursuant to this
     8  section shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section  404-oo
     9  of  the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor
    10  vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section  95-g
    11  of  the  state finance law and shall be used for the design, production,
    12  advertising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance
    13  with such section 95-g.
    14    (b) If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
    15  distinctive plates in the  series  are  first  available  for  sale  two
    16  hundred  or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant
    17  to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
    18  such plates are sold by such time,  the  department  of  motor  vehicles
    19  shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate
    20  to such shortfall.
    21    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    22  section one of this act shall take effect on the one  hundred  eightieth
    23  day  after it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addi-
    24  tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  necessary  for
    25  the  implementation of section one of this act on its effective date are
    26  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.