Bill Text: NY S05431 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to distinctive "Appalachian Trail" license plates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-19 - SUBSTITUTED BY A1571B [S05431 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05431-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5431--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 28, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LARKIN -- 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 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to distinctive "Appalachian Trail" license plates 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 "Appalachian Trail" license plates. 1. Any person 4 residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive 5 license plate bearing the words "Appalachian Trail". Application for 6 said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and 7 detail as the commissioner shall prescribe. 8 2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued 9 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular 10 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article 11 provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of twenty- 12 five dollars shall be charged for such plate. 13 § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-y of 14 the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of this act shall 15 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart- 16 ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand 17 dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the 18 department of financial services to transact business in this state. 19 Provided, however, that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have 20 received prior to plate design, production and issuance at least two 21 hundred orders for such distinctive plate together with the additional 22 annual service charge applicable to each such order, which shall be 23 non-refundable, no such surety bond shall be required. All service EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04530-05-7S. 5431--A 2 1 charges collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited pursuant 2 to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle and traffic law to 3 the credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate devel- 4 opment fund established by section 95-g of the state finance law and 5 shall be used for the design, production, advertising and distribution 6 of distinctive license plates in accordance with such section 95-g. 7 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which 8 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two 9 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant 10 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of 11 such plates are sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles 12 shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate 13 to such shortfall. 14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 15 section one of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth 16 day after it shall have become a law; provided further, however, that 17 effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule 18 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec- 19 tive date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or 20 before such effective date.
