STATE OF NEW YORK
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6714
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 25, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. TENNEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
the issuance of distinctive plates for recipients of the distinguished
service cross medal
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 persons awarded the distinguished
4 service cross medal. 1. Any person who was a recipient of the distin-
5 guished service cross medal or the spouse of any such person shall, upon
6 request, be issued a license plate bearing the words "Distinguished
7 Service Cross". If a distinctive plate is issued to a person pursuant to
8 this section, such a distinctive plate shall not be issued to the spouse
9 of such person. Application for said license plate shall be filed with
10 the commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner shall
11 prescribe.
12 2. The distinctive plate authorized in subdivision one of this section
13 shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the
14 applicant or the spouse of the applicant is a recipient or the spouse of
15 the recipient who received the distinguished service cross, pursuant to
16 10 USC 3742.
17 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
18 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
19 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article
20 provided, however, that an additional one time service charge of ten
21 dollars shall be charged for such plate. Such annual service charge
22 shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section four hundred
23 four-oo of this article to the credit of the department of motor vehi-
24 cles distinctive plate development fund established by section ninety-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 five-g of the state finance law and shall be used for the production,
2 design, advertising and marketing of distinctive license plates pursuant
3 to such section ninety-five-g.
4 4. Nothing contained in this section shall require the issuance of a
5 special number plate under this section unless the commissioner is
6 satisfied that the aggregate amount of annual service charges collected
7 pursuant to subdivision three of this section will be sufficient to
8 recover the costs of the design and manufacture of such special plates.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
10 it shall have become a law.
