STATE OF NEW YORK
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2895--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transporta-
tion -- recommitted 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 custom
plates for veterans
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. Custom plates for veterans, waiver of fee. Notwithstanding
4 any other provision of law to the contrary, all initial fees for exist-
5 ing plate designs in the military and veterans series of custom plates
6 are hereby waived in the case of an application therefor by any veteran
7 of service in the armed forces of the United States. This waiver applies
8 to fees for such custom plates without vanity lettering.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of May next succeeding
10 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.
LBD08301-02-8
