Establishes a distinctive "Pink Ribbon" license plate for which there is an additional annual service charge of $25; establishes the "breast cancer education and support fund"; provides for disbursement of monies in such fund for community-based breast cancer education and support programs.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2221
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 establishing
distinctive "Pink Ribbon" plates; and to amend the state finance law,
in relation to establishing the "breast cancer education and support
fund"
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-y to read as follows:
3 § 404-y. Distinctive "Pink Ribbon" license plates. 1. Any person
4 residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive
5 "Pink Ribbon" license plate of a design approved by the commissioner.
6 Application for said license plate shall be filed with the form and
7 detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
8 2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
9 in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regu-
10 lar registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this
11 article, provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of
12 twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such plate. Such additional
13 service charge shall be deposited pursuant to section four hundred four-
14 oo of this article to the credit of the department of motor vehicles
15 distinctive plate development fund, established by section ninety-five-g
16 of the state finance law, and shall be used for the production, design,
17 advertising and marketing of distinctive number plates; provided, howev-
18 er, that additional annual service charges collected in excess of six
19 thousand dollars shall be deposited to the credit of the breast cancer
20 education and support fund established pursuant to section ninety-five-i
21 of the state finance law.
22 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 95-i to
23 read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 95-i. Breast cancer education and support fund. 1. There is hereby
2 established in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and
3 finance and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as the "breast
4 cancer education and support fund".
5 2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys collected pursuant to section
6 four hundred four-y of the vehicle and traffic law, and all other moneys
7 appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or
8 source pursuant to law.
9 3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended by the department for breast
10 cancer education and support projects and grants to community-based
11 organizations pursuant to section twenty-four hundred six-a of the
12 public health law.
13 § 3. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-y of
14 the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of this act shall
15 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart-
16 ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand
17 dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the
18 department of financial services to transact business in this state.
19 Provided, however, that if the commissioner shall have received prior to
20 the plate design, production and issuance at least two hundred orders
21 for such distinctive plate together with the additional annual service
22 charge applicable to each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no
23 such surety bond shall be required. All such service charges shall be
24 deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo of article 14 of
25 the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor
26 vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g
27 of the state finance law and shall be used for the design, production,
28 advertising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance
29 with such section 95-g.
30 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
31 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two
32 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant
33 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
34 such plates are sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles
35 shall be entitled to recover against the bond an amount proportionate to
36 such shortfall.
37 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
38 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that section three of
39 this act shall take effect immediately; provided further, however, that
40 effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
41 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
42 tive date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or
43 before such effective date.
