Bill Text: NY S08179 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates for recipients of the conspicuous service cross or their spouses; requires payment of the regular registration fee and an additional, one-time service charge of ten dollars.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-08-22 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08179 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S08179-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          8179
                    IN SENATE
                                     August 22, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
          distinctive  license  plates for recipients of the conspicuous service
          cross
          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    § 404-x. Distinctive plates for conspicuous service cross  recipients.
     4  1. Any conspicuous service cross recipient residing in this state or the
     5  spouse  of  any  such recipient shall, upon request, be issued a license
     6  plate bearing the words "conspicuous  service  cross  recipient".  If  a
     7  distinctive  plate  is  issued  to a conspicuous service cross recipient
     8  pursuant to this section, such a distinctive plate shall not  be  issued
     9  to  the  spouse of such conspicuous service cross recipient. Application
    10  for said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form
    11  and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
    12    2. The distinctive plate authorized by this section  shall  be  issued
    13  upon  proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant or the
    14  spouse of the applicant is a conspicuous service cross recipient.
    15    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    16  in the same manner as other number plates upon payment  of  the  regular
    17  registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article;
    18  provided,  however,  that  an additional, one-time service charge of ten
    19  dollars shall be charged for such  plate.  Such  annual  service  charge
    20  shall  be  deposited  pursuant to the provisions of section four hundred
    21  four-oo of this article to the credit of the department of  motor  vehi-
    22  cles  distinctive  plate development fund established by section ninety-
    23  five-g of the state finance law and shall be used  for  the  production,
    24  design, advertising and marketing of distinctive license plates pursuant
    25  to such section ninety-five-g.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    27  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07042-01-5