Bill Text: NY S02636 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows for distinctive plates to be issued for members of the New York city fire riders motorcycle club.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-04 - referred to transportation [S02636 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02636-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2636--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. LANZA, MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when  printed  to  be  committed to the Committee on Transportation --
          reported favorably from  said  committee,  ordered  to  first  report,
          amended  on  first  report,  ordered  to  a  second report and ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report -- recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Transportation in  accordance  with  Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  creating
          distinctive plates for the New York city fire riders motorcycle club
          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-z to read as follows:
     3    §  404-z.  Distinctive plates for New York city fire riders motorcycle
     4  club. 1. Any member of the New York city  fire  riders  motorcycle  club
     5  shall,  upon  request,  be issued a license plate bearing the words "NYC
     6  Fire Riders". Application for said license plate shall be filed with the
     7  commissioner  in  such  form  and  detail  as  the  commissioner   shall
     8  prescribe.
     9    2.  A  distinctive plate authorized by subdivision one of this section
    10  shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner,  that  the
    11  applicant is a member of the New York city fire riders motorcycle club.
    12    3. For the purposes of this section, "member of the New York city fire
    13  riders  motorcycle  club"  shall mean a person who is a resident of this
    14  state, who is an active or retired uniformed member of the New York city
    15  fire department and who holds an active membership in the New York  city
    16  fire riders motorcycle club.
    17    4. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    18  in  the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regu-
    19  lar registration fee prescribed by section  four  hundred  one  of  this
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  article,  provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of
     2  fifteen dollars shall be charged for such plate.
     3    § 2.  (a) A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-z of
     4  the  vehicle and traffic law shall only be designed, produced and issued
     5  upon the delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a  surety  bond
     6  in  the  amount  of  six  thousand dollars, which shall be executed by a
     7  surety company authorized by the department  of  financial  services  to
     8  transact  business in this state. Provided, however, that if the commis-
     9  sioner of motor vehicles shall have  received  prior  to  plate  design,
    10  production and issuance at least two hundred orders for such distinctive
    11  plate  together  with the additional annual service charge applicable to
    12  each such order, which shall be  non-refundable,  no  such  surety  bond
    13  shall  be  required.  All  service  charges  collected  pursuant to this
    14  section shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section  404-oo
    15  of  the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor
    16  vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section  95-g
    17  of  the  state finance law and shall be used for the design, production,
    18  advertising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance
    19  with such section 95-g.
    20    (b) If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
    21  distinctive plates in the  series  are  first  available  for  sale  two
    22  hundred  or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant
    23  to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
    24  such plates are sold by such time,  the  department  of  motor  vehicles
    25  shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate
    26  to such shortfall.
    27    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    28  section one of this act shall take effect on the one  hundred  eightieth
    29  day  after it shall have become a law; and provided further, that effec-
    30  tive immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any  rule  or
    31  regulation  necessary  for the implementation of section one of this act
    32  on its effective date  are  authorized  and  directed  to  be  made  and
    33  completed on or before such effective date.