Establishes a distinctive plate honoring the Boy Scouts of America for which the regular registration fee will apply plus an initial one time service charge of $25.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4424--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
a distinctive plate honoring the Boy Scouts of America
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-z to read as follows:
3 § 404-z. Distinctive Boy Scouts of America plates. 1. Any person
4 residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive
5 plate in support of the Boy Scouts of America of a design approved by
6 the commissioner in consultation with the National Council of the Boy
7 Scouts of America.
8 2. An application for such plate shall be filed with the commissioner
9 in such form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
10 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
11 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
12 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article
13 and an initial one time service charge of twenty-five dollars shall be
14 charged for such plates.
15 § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-z of
16 the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of this act shall
17 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart-
18 ment of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall
19 be executed by a surety company authorized by the department of finan-
20 cial services to transact business in this state. Provided, however,
21 that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have received prior to
22 plate design, production and issuance at least two hundred orders for
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 such distinctive plate together with the additional annual service
2 charge applicable to each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no
3 such surety bond shall be required. All such service charges shall be
4 deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle
5 and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor vehicles
6 distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g of the
7 state finance law and shall be used for the design, production, adver-
8 tising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance with
9 such section 95-g.
10 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
11 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two
12 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant
13 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
14 such plates are sold by such time, such department shall be entitled to
15 recover against the bond in an amount proportionate 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; provided further, however, that
19 effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
20 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
21 tive date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or
22 before such effective date.
