Bill Text: NY A07715 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the "September eleventh, two thousand one remembrance" distinctive license plate program; establishes the World Trade Center memorial scholarship fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-08-24 - signed chap.224 [A07715 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07715-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 6072                                                  A. 7715
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                      May 10, 2017
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        IN  SENATE  --  Introduced  by  Sens. LAVALLE, GALLIVAN, GOLDEN, LARKIN,
          RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be
          committed to the Committee on Transportation
        IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the state  finance  law,
          in  relation  to  creating  the  "September eleventh, two thousand one
          remembrance" distinctive license plate program
          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-dd to read as follows:
     3    § 404-dd. Distinctive "September eleventh,  two  thousand  one  remem-
     4  brance" license plates. 1. Any person residing in this state shall, upon
     5  request,  be  issued a distinctive "September eleventh, two thousand one
     6  remembrance" license plate. Application for such license plate shall  be
     7  filed  with the commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner
     8  shall prescribe.
     9    2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    10  in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the  regu-
    11  lar  registration  fee  prescribed  by  section four hundred one of this
    12  article; provided, however, that an additional annual service charge  of
    13  twenty-five  dollars  shall  be  charged  for such plates.   Such annual
    14  service charge shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of  section
    15  four hundred four-oo of this article, to the credit of the department of
    16  motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section
    17  ninety-five-g  of  the  state  finance  law,  and  shall be used for the
    18  production, design, advertising and  marketing  of  distinctive  license
    19  plates  pursuant  to such section ninety-five-g; provided, however, that
    20  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 September eleventh, two thousand  one
     2  scholarship  fund"  established  pursuant  to  section ninety-six of the
     3  state finance law and shall be used for higher education of victims  who
     4  lost  an  immediate family member as a result of the September eleventh,
     5  two thousand one terrorist attacks in  New  York,  pursuant  to  section
     6  ninety-six of the state finance law.
     7    §  2.  The  state finance law is amended by adding a new section 96 to
     8  read as follows:
     9    § 96. The September eleventh, two thousand one  scholarship  fund.  1.
    10  There is hereby established, in the joint custody of the commissioner of
    11  taxation  and finance and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as
    12  the September eleventh, two thousand one scholarship fund.
    13    2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received  pursuant  to  the
    14  provisions  of  section  four hundred four-dd of the vehicle and traffic
    15  law and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred  thereto
    16  from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this
    17  section  shall  prevent  the  state  from  receiving  grants,  gifts, or
    18  bequests for the purposes of the fund, as defined in this  section,  and
    19  depositing them into the fund according to law.
    20    3.  Monies  of the fund shall be expended only for higher education of
    21  victims who lost an immediate family member as a result of the September
    22  eleventh, two thousand one terrorist attacks in New York.
    23    4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and  warrant  of
    24  the  comptroller  on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner
    25  of education.
    26    5. To the extent possible, the commissioner of education shall  ensure
    27  that  all monies received during a fiscal year are expended prior to the
    28  end of that fiscal year.
    29    § 3. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-dd  of
    30  the  vehicle and traffic law shall only be designed, produced and issued
    31  upon the delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a  surety  bond
    32  in  the  amount  of  $6,000, which shall be executed by a surety company
    33  authorized by the department of financial services to transact  business
    34  in  this  state.  Provided,  however,  that if the commissioner of motor
    35  vehicles shall have received prior to plate design, production and issu-
    36  ance at least 200 orders for such distinctive plate  together  with  the
    37  additional  annual  service  charge applicable to each such order, which
    38  shall be non-refundable, no such surety  bond  shall  be  required.  All
    39  service  charges  collected  pursuant to this section shall be deposited
    40  pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle and  traffic
    41  law  to the credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate
    42  development fund established by section 95-g of the  state  finance  law
    43  and  shall  be used for the design, production, advertising and distrib-
    44  ution of distinctive license plates  in  accordance  with  such  section
    45  95-g.
    46    2.  If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
    47  distinctive plates in the series are first available for  sale,  200  or
    48  more  sets  of  such  plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant to this
    49  section shall be discontinued. If fewer than 200 sets of such plates are
    50  sold by such time, the department of motor vehicle shall be entitled  to
    51  recover against the bond in an amount proportionate to such shortfall.
    52    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    53  it shall have become a law.