Bill Text: NY A00881 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to issuance of distinctive plates for members of the Red Knights International Motorcycle Club.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A00881 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00881-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           881

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to issuance  of
          distinctive plates for members of the Red Knights International Motor-
          cycle Club

          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 plates for members of the Red Knights Interna-
     4  tional Motorcycle Club. 1. Any member of the Red  Knights  International
     5  Motorcycle  Club residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a
     6  license plate bearing the words "Red  Knights  International  Motorcycle
     7  Club".  Application  for  such  license  plate  shall  be filed with the
     8  commissioner  in  such  form  and  detail  as  the  commissioner   shall
     9  prescribe.
    10    2.  The distinctive plate authorized pursuant to this section shall be
    11  issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the  applicant
    12  is a member of the Red Knights International Motorcycle Club.
    13    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    14  in  the  same  manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
    15  registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article,
    16  provided, however, that an additional annual service  charge  of  thirty
    17  dollars shall be charged for such plate.
    18    §  2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of
    19  the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of  this  act  shall
    20  only  be  designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart-
    21  ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount  of  six  thousand
    22  dollars,  which  shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the
    23  department of financial services to transact  business  in  this  state.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05564-01-1
        A. 881                              2

     1  Provided, however, that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have
     2  received  prior  to  plate  design, production and issuance at least two
     3  hundred orders for such distinctive plate together with  the  additional
     4  annual  service  charge  applicable  to  each such order, which shall be
     5  non-refundable, no such surety  bond  shall  be  required.  All  service
     6  charges  collected  pursuant to this section shall be deposited pursuant
     7  to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle and  traffic  law  to
     8  the  credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate devel-
     9  opment fund established by section 95-g of the  state  finance  law  and
    10  shall  be  used for the design, production, advertising and distribution
    11  of distinctive license plates in accordance with such section 95-g.
    12    2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon  which
    13  distinctive  plates  in  the  series  are  first  available for sale two
    14  hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered  pursuant
    15  to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
    16  such  plates  are  sold  by  such time, the department of motor vehicles
    17  shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate
    18  to such shortfall.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    20  section  one  of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth
    21  day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,  the  addi-
    22  tion,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for
    23  the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized  to
    24  be made and completed on or before such effective date.