Waives the registration fee and service charge for distinctive plates for volunteer firefighters and members of volunteer ambulance services where the applicant has attended twenty-five percent or more of the emergency calls for the previous year.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9666
IN SENATE
April 1, 2026
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Introduced by Sens. HINCHEY, BORRELLO -- 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 waiving the
registration fee and service charge for distinctive plates for certain
volunteer firefighters and certain members of volunteer ambulance
services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 404-b of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 277 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
5 in the same manner as other number plates [upon payment of the regular].
6 The registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this
7 [chapter] article and [an] the initial one time service charge of
8 fifteen dollars shall be waived for one set of plates for each such
9 applicant upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the appli-
10 cant has attended twenty-five percent or more of the emergency calls for
11 the previous year.
12 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 404-f of the vehicle and traffic law, as
13 amended by chapter 277 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as
14 follows:
15 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
16 in the same manner as other number plates [upon payment of the regular].
17 The registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this
18 [chapter] article and [an] the additional annual service charge of
19 fifteen dollars shall be waived for one set of plates for each such
20 applicant upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the appli-
21 cant has attended twenty-five percent or more of the emergency calls for
22 the previous year.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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