STATE OF NEW YORK
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3156
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BYRNE, MORINELLO, RAIA, BRABENEC, RA, McDONOUGH,
M. L. MILLER, BLANKENBUSH, ARROYO, B. MILLER, MIKULIN, SMITH -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to codifying
distinctive plates for emergency medical technician paramedics and
eliminating the annual service charge for such plates
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 emergency medical technician paramed-
4 ics. 1. Any emergency medical technician paramedics residing in this
5 state shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing the word
6 "Paramedic". Application for said license plate shall be filed with the
7 commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner shall
8 prescribe.
9 2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
10 satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant is an emergency
11 medical technician paramedic.
12 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
13 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the sixty
14 dollar registration fee, provided, however, that no annual service
15 charge shall be charged for such plate.
16 § 2. Distinctive plates issued prior to the effective date of this act
17 bearing the word "paramedic" shall be considered to have been issued
18 under section 404-ff of the vehicle and traffic law and all such plates
19 issued after the effective date of this act shall be issued with the
20 same issuance requirements, fees and service charges as a plate issued
21 under such section.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03069-01-9
