STATE OF NEW YORK
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9405
IN SENATE
May 15, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. ROLISON -- 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 authorizing
the issuance of distinctive plates for medical technologists
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 medical technologists. 1. Any medical
4 technologist shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing the
5 emblem and words "New York State" on the top of the license plate and
6 "Medical Technologist" on the bottom of the license plate. Application
7 for said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form
8 and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe and shall be verified
9 annually by the applicant.
10 2. The distinctive plate authorized in subdivision one of this section
11 shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the
12 applicant is presently a medical technologist.
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 fifteen
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 shall only be designed, produced and issued
20 upon the delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a surety bond
21 in the amount of $6,000, which shall be executed by a surety company
22 authorized by the department of financial services to transact business
23 in this state. Provided, however, that if the commissioner of motor
24 vehicles shall have received prior to plate design, production and issu-
25 ance at least 200 orders for such distinctive plate together with the
26 additional annual service charge applicable to each such order, which
27 shall be non-refundable, no such surety bond shall be required. All
28 service charges collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle and traffic
2 law to the credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate
3 development fund established by section 95-g of the state finance law
4 and shall be used for the design, production, advertising and distrib-
5 ution of distinctive license plates in accordance with such section
6 95-g.
7 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
8 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale, 200 or
9 more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant to this
10 section shall be discontinued. If fewer than 200 sets of such plates are
11 sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles shall be entitled to
12 recover against the bond in an amount proportionate to such shortfall.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
14 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
15 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
16 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
17 completed on or before such effective date.
