Bill Text: NY S04155 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the "September eleventh, two thousand one remembrance" distinctive license plate program; establishes monies collected from the creation of such plates shall go to the World Trade Center Memorial scholarships.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04155 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04155-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4155
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 21, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  SMITH  -- 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 the
         "September eleventh, two thousand one remembrance" distinctive license
         plate program
         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 "SEPTEMBER  ELEVENTH,  TWO  THOUSAND  ONE  REMEM-
    4  BRANCE" LICENSE PLATES. 1. ANY PERSON RESIDING IN THIS STATE SHALL, UPON
    5  REQUEST,  BE  ISSUED A DISTINCTIVE "SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE
    6  REMEMBRANCE" LICENSE PLATE. APPLICATION FOR SUCH LICENSE PLATE SHALL  BE
    7  FILED  WITH THE COMMISSIONER IN SUCH FORM AND DETAIL AS THE COMMISSIONER
    8  SHALL PRESCRIBE.
    9    2. A DISTINCTIVE PLATE ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE ISSUED
   10  IN THE SAME MANNER AS OTHER NUMBER PLATES UPON THE PAYMENT OF THE  REGU-
   11  LAR  REGISTRATION  FEE  PRESCRIBED  BY  SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS
   12  ARTICLE; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT AN ADDITIONAL ANNUAL SERVICE CHARGE  OF
   13  TWENTY-FIVE  DOLLARS  SHALL  BE  CHARGED FOR SUCH PLATES. TWENTY DOLLARS
   14  FROM EACH TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS RECEIVED  AS  THE  ANNUAL  SERVICE  CHARGE
   15  UNDER  THIS  SECTION SHALL BE DEPOSITED TO THE CREDIT OF THE WORLD TRADE
   16  CENTER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION SIX HUNDRED
   17  EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT, ONE YEAR AFTER  THE
   18  EFFECTIVE  DATE  OF  THIS SECTION, FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF SEVEN THOUSAND
   19  FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAY BE AVAILABLE,  SHALL  BE
   20  ALLOCATED  TO  THE  DEPARTMENT FROM SUCH FUND TO OFFSET COSTS ASSOCIATED
   21  WITH THE PRODUCTION OF SUCH LICENSE PLATES.
   22    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   23  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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