Creates the "September eleventh, two thousand one remembrance" distinctive license plate program; establishes monies collected from the creation of such plates shall go to the World Trade Center Memorial scholarships.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4155
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 21, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. SMITH -- 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 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-x to read as follows:
3 § 404-x. 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. Twenty dollars
14 from each twenty-five dollars received as the annual service charge
15 under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the world trade
16 center memorial scholarships established pursuant to section six hundred
17 eight of the education law; provided, however, that, one year after the
18 effective date of this section, funds in the amount of seven thousand
19 five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be available, shall be
20 allocated to the department from such fund to offset costs associated
21 with the production of such license plates.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
23 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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