STATE OF NEW YORK
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2923--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. PERRY, SKOUFIS -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Trans-
portation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
a distinctive "Jamaican bobsled team" number plate
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-ee to read as follows:
3 § 404-ee. Distinctive "Jamaican bobsled team" number plates. 1. Any
4 person residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinc-
5 tive "Jamaican bobsled team" license plate of a design approved by the
6 commissioner. Application for said license plate shall be filed with
7 the commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner shall
8 prescribe.
9 2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
10 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
11 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article,
12 provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of twenty-
13 five dollars shall be charged for such plate.
14 § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ee of
15 the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of this act shall
16 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart-
17 ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand
18 dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the
19 department of financial services to transact business in this state.
20 Provided, however, that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have
21 received prior to plate design, production and issuance at least two
22 hundred orders for such distinctive plate together with the additional
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 annual service charge applicable to each such order, which shall be
2 non-refundable, no such surety bond shall be required. All service
3 charges collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited pursuant
4 to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle and traffic law to
5 the credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate devel-
6 opment fund established by section 95-g of the state finance law and
7 shall be used for the design, production, advertising and distribution
8 of distinctive license plates in accordance with such section 95-g.
9 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
10 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two
11 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant
12 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
13 such plates are sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles
14 shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate
15 to such shortfall.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
17 section one of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth
18 day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addi-
19 tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for
20 the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and
21 directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
