Provides for issuance of distinctive plates for the "75th Anniversary of Ducks Unlimited"; requires additional annual service charge of $25 to be deposited into the DMV distinctive plate development fund.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5609--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 2, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. OAKS, LAWRENCE, DiPIETRO, FINCH, LOPEZ -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, HAWLEY -- 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 committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to issuance of
distinctive plates for the "75th Anniversary of Ducks Unlimited"
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 the "75th Anniversary of Ducks Unlim-
4 ited". 1. Any person residing in this state shall, upon request, be
5 issued a license plate bearing the words "75th Anniversary of Ducks
6 Unlimited". Applications for said license plate shall be filed with the
7 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 each plate. Such service charge shall
14 be transmitted by the commissioner to the comptroller for deposit into
15 the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund
16 established by section ninety-five-g of the state finance law.
17 § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-x of
18 the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of this act shall
19 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart-
20 ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand
21 dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 department of financial services to transact business in this state.
2 Provided, however, that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have
3 received prior to plate design, production and issuance at least two
4 hundred orders for such distinctive plate together with the additional
5 annual service charge applicable to each such order, which shall be
6 non-refundable, no such surety bond shall be required. All such service
7 charges shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo
8 of the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor
9 vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g
10 of the state finance law and shall be used for the design, production,
11 advertising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance
12 with such section 95-g.
13 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
14 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two
15 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant
16 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
17 such plates are sold by such time, such department shall be entitled to
18 recover against the bond in an amount proportionate to such shortfall.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
20 section one of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth
21 day after it shall have become a law; provided further, however, that
22 effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
23 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
24 tive date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or
25 before such effective date.
