STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3614 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 11, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to codifying distinctive plates for emergency medical technician paramedics and eliminating the annual service charge for such plates 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 emergency medical technician paramed- 4 ics. 1. Any emergency medical technician paramedics residing in this 5 state shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing the word 6 "Paramedic". 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. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof, 10 satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant is an emergency 11 medical technician paramedic. 12 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued 13 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the sixty 14 dollar registration fee, provided, however, that no annual service 15 charge shall be charged for such plate. 16 § 2. Distinctive plates issued prior to the effective date of this act 17 bearing the word "paramedic" shall be considered to have been issued 18 under section 404-ff of the vehicle and traffic law and all such plates 19 issued after the effective date of this act shall be issued with the 20 same issuance requirements, fees and service charges as a plate issued 21 under such section. 22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03069-01-9