Bill Text: NY S05521 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the issuance of distinctive license plates to the spouse of a congressional medal of honor recipient, and the transfer of distinctive license plates issued to congressional medal of honor recipients who are now deceased to their surviving spouse.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3305B [S05521 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05521-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5521

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- 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  distinctive
          license plates issued to congressional medal of honor recipients

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "Sergeant
     2  Gary Beikirch Memorial Act".
     3    § 2. Section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter
     4  486  of the laws of 1996, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 415 of the
     5  laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
     6    § 404-p. Distinctive plates for congressional medal of  honor  recipi-
     7  ents.  1.  Any  congressional  medal of honor recipient residing in this
     8  state, or the spouse of any   such recipient, shall,  upon  request,  be
     9  issued a license plate bearing the words "congressional medal of honor".
    10  If  a  distinctive  license  plate is issued to a congressional medal of
    11  honor recipient pursuant to this section, additional distinctive license
    12  plates may be issued for every vehicle registered in  the  name  of  the
    13  congressional  medal  of  honor  recipient residing in this state or the
    14  spouse of such congressional medal of honor recipient.  Application  for
    15  said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and
    16  detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
    17    2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
    18  satisfactory  to  the  commissioner, that the applicant or the spouse of
    19  such applicant is a congressional medal of honor recipient.
    20    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    21  in the same manner as other number plates, provided,  however,  that  no
    22  registration fee or service charge shall be charged for such plate.
    23    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    24  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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