STATE OF NEW YORK
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1090
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMEL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE,
BOYLAND, BURLING, CALHOUN, CASTRO, COLTON, CONTE, DenDEKKER, GABRYS-
ZAK, GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, JAFFEE, JEFFRIES, MAYERSOHN, McENENY, McKEV-
ITT, MILLMAN, ORTIZ, REILLY, ROSENTHAL, SALADINO, SCARBOROUGH, SCHIM-
MINGER, SWEENEY, TITONE, TITUS, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
the issuance of distinctive license plates to members of a community
emergency response team
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 plates for members of a community emergency
4 response team. 1. Any member of a community emergency response team
5 shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing the emblem and
6 words "C.E.R.T. member." Application for said license plate shall be
7 filed with the commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner
8 shall prescribe, and shall be verified annually by the applicant.
9 2. The distinctive plate authorized in subdivision one of this section
10 shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the
11 applicant is presently an active member of a community emergency
12 response team.
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 and an additional annual service charge of twenty-five dollars.
17 4. Nothing contained herein shall require the issuance of a special
18 number plate under this section unless the commissioner is satisfied
19 that the aggregate amount of annual service charges collected pursuant
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 to subdivision three of this section will be sufficient to recover the
2 costs of the design and manufacture of such special number plates.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
4 the date on which it shall have become a law, except that any rules and
5 regulations necessary for the timely implementation of this act on its
6 effective date shall be promulgated on or before such date.
