STATE OF NEW YORK
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2636--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. LANZA, MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --
reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first report,
amended on first report, ordered to a second report and ordered
reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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 creating
distinctive plates for the New York city fire riders motorcycle club
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 plates for New York city fire riders motorcycle
4 club. 1. Any member of the New York city fire riders motorcycle club
5 shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing the words "NYC
6 Fire Riders". Application 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 authorized by subdivision one of this section
10 shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the
11 applicant is a member of the New York city fire riders motorcycle club.
12 3. For the purposes of this section, "member of the New York city fire
13 riders motorcycle club" shall mean a person who is a resident of this
14 state, who is an active or retired uniformed member of the New York city
15 fire department and who holds an active membership in the New York city
16 fire riders motorcycle club.
17 4. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
18 in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regu-
19 lar registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 article, provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of
2 fifteen dollars shall be charged for such plate.
3 § 2. (a) A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-z of
4 the vehicle and traffic law shall only be designed, produced and issued
5 upon the delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a surety bond
6 in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall be executed by a
7 surety company authorized by the department of financial services to
8 transact business in this state. Provided, however, that if the commis-
9 sioner of motor vehicles shall have received prior to plate design,
10 production and issuance at least two hundred orders for such distinctive
11 plate together with the additional annual service charge applicable to
12 each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no such surety bond
13 shall be required. All service charges collected pursuant to this
14 section shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo
15 of the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor
16 vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g
17 of the state finance law and shall be used for the design, production,
18 advertising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance
19 with such section 95-g.
20 (b) If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
21 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two
22 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant
23 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
24 such plates are sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles
25 shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate
26 to such shortfall.
27 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
28 section one of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth
29 day after it shall have become a law; and provided further, that effec-
30 tive immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or
31 regulation necessary for the implementation of section one of this act
32 on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and
33 completed on or before such effective date.
