Bill Text: NY S06164 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to issuance of distinctive plates for members of the Red Knights International Motorcycle Club.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06164 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06164-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6164

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 31, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- 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 issuance  of
          distinctive plates for members of the Red Knights International Motor-
          cycle 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-ff to read as follows:
     3    §  404-ff.  Distinctive plates for members of the Red Knights Interna-
     4  tional Motorcycle Club. 1. Any member of the Red  Knights  International
     5  Motorcycle  Club residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a
     6  license plate bearing the words "Red  Knights  International  Motorcycle
     7  Club".  Application  for  such  license  plate  shall  be filed with the
     8  commissioner  in  such  form  and  detail  as  the  commissioner   shall
     9  prescribe.
    10    2.  The distinctive plate authorized pursuant to this section shall be
    11  issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the  applicant
    12  is a member of the Red Knights International Motorcycle Club.
    13    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    14  in  the  same  manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
    15  registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article,
    16  provided, however, that an additional annual service  charge  of  thirty
    17  dollars shall be charged for such plate.
    18    §  2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of
    19  the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of  this  act  shall
    20  only  be  designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart-
    21  ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount  of  six  thousand
    22  dollars,  which  shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the
    23  department of financial services to transact  business  in  this  state.
    24  Provided, however, that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03926-01-3
        S. 6164                             2

     1  received  prior  to  plate  design, production and issuance at least two
     2  hundred orders for such distinctive plate together with  the  additional
     3  annual  service  charge  applicable  to  each such order, which shall be
     4  non-refundable,  no  such  surety  bond  shall  be required. All service
     5  charges collected pursuant to this section shall be  deposited  pursuant
     6  to  the  provisions  of section 404-oo of the vehicle and traffic law to
     7  the credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate  devel-
     8  opment  fund  established  by  section 95-g of the state finance law and
     9  shall be used for the design, production, advertising  and  distribution
    10  of distinctive license plates in accordance with such section 95-g.
    11    2.  If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
    12  distinctive plates in the  series  are  first  available  for  sale  two
    13  hundred  or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant
    14  to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
    15  such plates are sold by such time,  the  department  of  motor  vehicles
    16  shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate
    17  to such shortfall.
    18    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    19  section one of this act shall take effect on the one  hundred  eightieth
    20  day  after  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addi-
    21  tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  necessary  for
    22  the  implementation  of this act on its effective date are authorized to
    23  be made and completed on or before such effective date.