Bill Text: NY A00907 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a gold star father distinctive number plate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to transportation [A00907 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00907-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          907
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    January 8, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
         distinctive number plates for gold star fathers
         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-ii to read as follows:
    3    S  404-II.  DISTINCTIVE PLATES FOR GOLD STAR FATHERS. 1. ANY GOLD STAR
    4  FATHER OR THE SPOUSE OF A GOLD STAR FATHER RESIDING IN THIS STATE SHALL,
    5  UPON REQUEST, BE ISSUED A LICENSE PLATE BEARING  THE  WORDS  "GOLD  STAR
    6  FATHER". IF A DISTINCTIVE PLATE IS ISSUED TO A GOLD STAR FATHER PURSUANT
    7  TO  THIS  SECTION, ADDITIONAL DISTINCTIVE PLATES MAY BE ISSUED FOR EVERY
    8  VEHICLE REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE GOLD STAR FATHER RECIPIENT  RESID-
    9  ING  IN  THIS STATE OR THE SPOUSE OF SUCH GOLD STAR FATHER.  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 PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL  BE
   13  ISSUED  UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER, THAT THE APPLICANT
   14  OR THE SPOUSE OF THE APPLICANT IS A GOLD STAR FATHER.
   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  NO  SERVICE  CHARGE SHALL BE CHARGED FOR SUCH
   19  PLATE.
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   21  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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