STATE OF NEW YORK
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3466
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. RABBITT, RAIA, McKEVITT, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. CROUCH, MONTESANO, OAKS, TENNEY, TITONE -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the issuance
of distinctive plates for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan
conflicts
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 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan
4 conflicts. 1. Any Iraq and Afghanistan conflict veteran or the spouse of
5 any such veteran shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing
6 the words "Iraq and Afghanistan Conflict Veteran". If a distinctive
7 plate is issued to a veteran pursuant to this section, such a distinc-
8 tive plate shall not be issued to the spouse of such veteran. Applica-
9 tion for such license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such
10 form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
11 2. The distinctive plate authorized in subdivision one of this section
12 shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the
13 applicant or the spouse of the applicant is an Iraq and Afghanistan
14 conflict veteran.
15 3. For the purposes of this section, "Iraq and Afghanistan conflict
16 veteran" shall mean a person who is a resident of this state, who served
17 in the armed forces of the United States in the hostilities that
18 occurred in Iraq commencing on the nineteenth day of March, two thousand
19 three and in Afghanistan commencing the seventh day of October in two
20 thousand one, and were honorably discharged from the military.
21 4. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
22 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
23 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 provided, however, that an additional one time service charge of ten
2 dollars shall be charged for such plate. Such annual service charge
3 shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section four hundred
4 four-oo of this article to the credit of the department of motor vehi-
5 cles distinctive plate development fund established by section ninety-
6 five-g of the state finance law and shall be used for the production,
7 design, advertising and marketing of distinctive license plates pursuant
8 to such section ninety-five-g.
9 5. Nothing contained herein shall require the issuance of a special
10 number plate under this section unless the commissioner is satisfied
11 that the aggregate amount of annual service charges collected pursuant
12 to subdivision four of this section will be sufficient to recover the
13 costs of the design and manufacture of such special plates.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
15 the date on which it shall have become a law.
