Bill Text: NY S09508 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that family members of paid professional firefighters who died in the line-of-duty may obtain a "Survivor of the Bravest" license plate; provides for the annual service charge collected to be deposited into the department of motor vehicles distinctive license plate development fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S09508 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09508-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9508

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2024
                                       ___________

        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  authorizing
          the  issuance of distinctive license plates for family members of paid
          professional firefighters who died in the line-of-duty

          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  license  plates  for  family  members  of  paid
     4  professional firefighters who died in the line-of-duty.  1. For purposes
     5  of  this section, "family members of a paid professional firefighter who
     6  died in the line-of-duty" shall mean a spouse, registered domestic part-
     7  ner, parent, sibling or child of a  paid  professional  firefighter  who
     8  died  in the course of his or her employment or performance of duties as
     9  a firefighter.
    10    2. Any family member of a paid professional firefighter  who  died  in
    11  the  line-of-duty  and who resides in this state shall, upon request, be
    12  issued a distinctive license plate bearing the words  "Survivor  of  the
    13  Bravest" of a design approved by the commissioner.  Application for such
    14  license  plate  shall  be  filed  with the commissioner in such form and
    15  detail as the commissioner shall prescribe and shall be verified annual-
    16  ly by the applicant.
    17    3. A distinctive plate authorized pursuant to subdivision two of  this
    18  section  shall  be  issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner,
    19  that the applicant is a family member of a paid professional firefighter
    20  who died in the line-of-duty.
    21    4. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    22  in the same manner as other number plates upon payment  of  the  regular
    23  registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article,
    24  provided,  however,  that an additional annual service charge of twenty-
    25  five dollars shall be charged for  such  plate.    Such  annual  service
    26  charge  shall  be  deposited  pursuant to the provisions of section four
    27  hundred four-oo of this article to the credit of the department of motor

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05966-01-3

        S. 9508                             2

     1  vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section nine-
     2  ty-five-g of the state finance law and shall be used for the production,
     3  design, advertising and marketing of distinctive license plates pursuant
     4  to such section ninety-five-g.
     5    § 2. 1.  A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of
     6  the  vehicle  and  traffic law as added by section one of this act shall
     7  only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to  the  depart-
     8  ment  of  motor  vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand
     9  dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized  by  the
    10  department  of  financial  services  to transact business in this state.
    11  Provided, however, that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have
    12  received prior to plate design, production and  issuance  at  least  two
    13  hundred  orders  for such distinctive plate together with the additional
    14  annual service charge applicable to each  such  order,  which  shall  be
    15  non-refundable,  no  such  surety  bond  shall  be required. All service
    16  charges collected pursuant to this section shall be  deposited  pursuant
    17  to  the  provisions  of section 404-oo of the vehicle and traffic law to
    18  the credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate  devel-
    19  opment  fund  established  by  section 95-g of the state finance law and
    20  shall be used for the design, production, advertising  and  distribution
    21  of distinctive license plates in accordance with such section 95-g.
    22    2.  If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
    23  distinctive plates in the  series  are  first  available  for  sale  two
    24  hundred  or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant
    25  to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
    26  such plates are sold by such time, such department shall be entitled  to
    27  recover against the bond in an amount proportionate to such shortfall.
    28    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    29  it  shall have become a law; provided, however, that section two of this
    30  act shall take  effect  immediately;  provided  further,  however,  that
    31  effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
    32  or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
    33  tive  date  are  authorized  to  be made and completed on or before such
    34  effective date.
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