Bill Text: NY A05466 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the New York state veterans remembrance license plate; provides that any proceeds shall go to the credit of the veterans remembrance and cemetery maintenance operation fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A05466 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05466-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5466

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 17, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. GALLAHAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to creating the
          New York state veterans remembrance license plate

          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 the New York state veterans remem-
     4  brance. 1. Any veteran or the spouse of any  such  veteran  shall,  upon
     5  request,  be  issued  a  license  plate  bearing the words "NYS Veterans
     6  Remembrance". If a distinctive plate is issued to a veteran pursuant  to
     7  this section, such a distinctive plate shall not be issued to the spouse
     8  of such veteran.  Application for such license plate shall be filed with
     9  the  commissioner  in  such  form  and  detail as the commissioner shall
    10  prescribe.
    11    2. The distinctive plate authorized in subdivision one of this section
    12  shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner,  that  the
    13  applicant or the spouse of the applicant is a veteran.
    14    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    15  in  the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regu-
    16  lar registration fee prescribed by section  four  hundred  one  of  this
    17  article;  provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of
    18  twenty-five dollars shall  be  charged  for  such  plates.  Such  annual
    19  service  charge shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section
    20  four hundred four-oo of this article, to the credit of the department of
    21  motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section
    22  ninety-five-g of the state finance  law,  and  shall  be  used  for  the
    23  production,  design,  advertising  and  marketing of distinctive license
    24  plates pursuant to such section ninety-five-g; provided,  however,  that
    25  annual service charges collected in excess of six thousand dollars shall

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  be  deposited  to  the  credit  of the veterans remembrance and cemetery
     2  maintenance operation fund and shall be  used  for  furtherance  of  the
     3  maintenance  and  operation  of  state  veterans cemeteries, pursuant to
     4  section ninety-seven-mmmm of the state finance law.
     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 such  service
    16  charges  shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo
    17  of the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of  motor
    18  vehicles  distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g
    19  of the state finance law and shall be used for the  design,  production,
    20  advertising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance
    21  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 immediately; provided, however, that
    29  section one of this act shall take effect on the one  hundred  eightieth
    30  day  after it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addi-
    31  tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  necessary  for
    32  the  implementation  of this act on its effective date are authorized to
    33  be made and completed on or before such effective date.