Bill Text: NY A05981 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to allowing, for a fee, one license plate to be issued and displayed on the rear of a vehicle and directs funds gathered to the account established in a vehicle and directs funds gathered to be deposited in the New York state wireless telephone emergency account.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to transportation [A05981 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A05981-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5981
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 3, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. BURLING, FINCH, CORWIN, SALADINO -- Multi-Spon-
         sored by -- M. of A.  CASTRO -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
         tee on Transportation
       AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the state finance law,
         in relation to allowing for a fee for one license plate to  be  issued
         and displayed on the rear of a vehicle
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law
    2  is amended by adding a new paragraph a-1 to read as follows:
    3    A-1. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH A OF THIS SUBDIVISION
    4  UPON PAYMENT OF AN ADDITIONAL FEE OF FIFTY DOLLARS, PAID ANNUALLY TO THE
    5  COMMISSIONER, THE APPLICANT, SHALL BE ISSUED AND  RECEIVE  ONE  NUMBERED
    6  PLATE TO BE DISPLAYED ON THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE ONLY.  ALL MONIES GATH-
    7  ERED  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE DEPOSITED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE NEW
    8  YORK STATE WIRELESS TELEPHONE EMERGENCY ACCOUNT AS PRESCRIBED IN SECTION
    9  NINETY-SEVEN-QQ OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW.  WHENEVER THE TERM "PLATES" IS
   10  USED OR REFERRED TO IN THIS CHAPTER, IT SHALL BE DEEMED TO  INCLUDE  ONE
   11  PLATE AS PROVIDED IN THIS PARAGRAPH.
   12    S 2. Section 97-qq of the state finance law is amended by adding a new
   13  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   14    3.  ALL  MONIES GATHERED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION FOUR
   15  HUNDRED ONE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW SHALL BE DEPOSITED EXCLUSIVE-
   16  LY IN THIS ACCOUNT.
   17    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03532-01-1