Bill Text: NY S03615 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Codifies distinctive plates for emergency medical technicians and eliminates such plate's annual service charge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S03615 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03615-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3615
                               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 technicians 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  technicians.    1.
     4  Any  emergency  medical  technicians  residing in this state shall, upon
     5  request, be issued a license plate bearing the words "Emergency  Medical
     6  Technician".  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.
    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 words "Emergency Medical Technician" shall be considered to
    18  have been issued under section 404-ff of the vehicle and traffic law and
    19  all such plates issued after the effective date of  this  act  shall  be
    20  issued with the same issuance requirements, fees, and service charges as
    21  a plate issued 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.
                                                                   LBD03070-01-9
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