Bill Text: NY A02277 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes the YMCA distinctive license plate; creates the YMCA foundation fund.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A02277 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02277-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2277

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, BUTTENSCHON, SAYEGH, RAMOS, GUNTHER, COOK,
          SMULLEN,  GALLAHAN, NORRIS, DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  distinctive
          YMCA  license  plates; and to amend the state finance law, in relation
          to establishing the New York State YMCA foundation fund

          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 YMCA license plates. 1. Any person  residing  in
     4  this  state  shall,  upon request, be issued a distinctive "YMCA member"
     5  license plate.   Application for such license plate shall be filed  with
     6  the  commissioner  in  such  form  and  detail as the commissioner shall
     7  prescribe.
     8    2.  The distinctive plate authorized pursuant to this section shall be
     9  issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the  applicant
    10  is a member of the YMCA.
    11    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    12  in  the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regu-
    13  lar registration fee prescribed by section  four  hundred  one  of  this
    14  article;  provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of
    15  twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such plates.
    16    4. Each twenty-five dollars received  as  the  annual  service  charge
    17  under  this  section  shall  be  deposited to the credit of the New York
    18  State YMCA foundation, and shall be used for furtherance of the New York
    19  State YMCA foundation, pursuant to section ninety-five-1  of  the  state
    20  finance law.
    21    §  2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 95-1 to
    22  read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02632-02-3

        A. 2277                             2

     1    § 95-1. The New York State YMCA foundation fund. 1.  There  is  hereby
     2  established,  in  the  joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and
     3  finance and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as the New  York
     4  State YMCA foundation fund.
     5    2.    Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the
     6  provisions of section four hundred four-ff of the  vehicle  and  traffic
     7  law  and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto
     8  from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this
     9  section shall  prevent  the  state  from  receiving  grants,  gifts,  or
    10  bequests  for  the purposes of the fund, as defined in this section, and
    11  depositing them into the fund according to law.
    12    3. Monies of the fund shall be  expended  only  for  the  benefit  and
    13  programs of the New York State YMCA foundation.
    14    4.  Monies  shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
    15  the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by  the  commissioner
    16  of taxation and finance.
    17    5.  To  the  extent possible, the commissioner of taxation and finance
    18  shall ensure that all monies received during a fiscal year are  expended
    19  prior to the end of that fiscal year.
    20    §  3. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of
    21  the vehicle and traffic law, as added by section one of this act,  shall
    22  only  be  designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart-
    23  ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount  of  six  thousand
    24  dollars,  which  shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the
    25  department of financial services to transact  business  in  this  state.
    26  Provided, however, that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have
    27  received  prior to the plate design, production and issuance of at least
    28  two hundred orders for such distinctive plate together  with  the  addi-
    29  tional  annual service charge applicable to each such order, which shall
    30  be non-refundable, no such surety bond shall be required.   All  service
    31  charges  collected  pursuant to this section shall be deposited pursuant
    32  to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle and  traffic  law  to
    33  the  credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate devel-
    34  opment fund established by section 95-1 of the  state  finance  law  and
    35  shall  be  used for the design, production, advertising and distribution
    36  of distinctive license plates in accordance with such section 95-1.
    37    2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon  which
    38  distinctive  plates  in  the  series  are  first  available for sale two
    39  hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered  pursuant
    40  to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
    41  such  plates  are  sold  by  such time, the department of motor vehicles
    42  shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate
    43  to such shortfall.
    44    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    45  section  one  of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth
    46  day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,  the  addi-
    47  tion,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for
    48  the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized  to
    49  be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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