Provides for the issuance of distinctive license plates for members of the clergy by the department of motor vehicles which shall be issued upon registration of such motor vehicle.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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259
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing
for distinctive license plates for members of the clergy
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 members of the clergy. 1. Any member
4 of the clergy residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a
5 license plate bearing the word "Clergy". Application for said license
6 plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and detail as
7 the commissioner shall prescribe.
8 2. The distinctive plate authorized by this section shall be issued
9 upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant is a
10 member of the clergy including but not limited to duly ordained
11 chaplains.
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 regular
14 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
16 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00267-01-5
