STATE OF NEW YORK
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712
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, SKOUFIS -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the distinc-
tive gift of life license plates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 404-u of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by chapter 415 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Any person residing in this state shall upon request be issued a
5 distinctive license plate bearing the words ["Life Pass It On"] "Donate
6 Life New York State" and "Be an Organ & Tissue Donor". Application for
7 said license plates shall be filed with the commissioner in such form
8 and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
9 § 2. Distinctive plates issued pursuant to section 404-u of the vehi-
10 cle and traffic law prior to the amendment of such section made by
11 section one of this act shall be reissued to any person assigned such
12 plate upon such person's request. No fee or service charge shall be
13 charged for the reissuance of such plate. Provided, however, that
14 notwithstanding the provisions of section one of this act, nothing
15 contained in this act shall be deemed to invalidate "Life Pass it On"
16 distinctive license plates issued prior to the effective date of this
17 act.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
19 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
20 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
21 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is
22 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such
23 effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03773-01-7