STATE OF NEW YORK
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4228--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 5, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to "I Support
Music Education" distinctive plates
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-ff to read as follows:
3 § 404-ff. Distinctive "I Support Music Education" license plates. 1.
4 Any person residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a
5 distinctive license plate bearing the phrase "I Support Music Educa-
6 tion". 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 issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
10 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
11 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article;
12 provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of twenty-
13 five dollars shall be charged for such plates.
14 3. Each twenty-five dollars received as the annual service charge
15 under this section shall be donated to the New York Summer School for
16 the Arts.
17 § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of
18 the vehicle and traffic law shall only be designed, produced and issued
19 upon the delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a surety bond
20 in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall be executed by a
21 surety company authorized by the department of financial services to
22 transact business in this state. Provided, however, that if the commis-
23 sioner of motor vehicles shall have received prior to plate design,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 production and issuance at least two hundred orders for such distinctive
2 plate together with the additional annual service charge applicable to
3 each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no such surety bond
4 shall be required. All service charges collected pursuant to this
5 section shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo
6 of the vehicle and traffic law.
7 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
8 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two
9 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant
10 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
11 such plates are sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles
12 shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate
13 to such shortfall.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
15 section one of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth
16 day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addi-
17 tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for
18 the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to
19 be made and completed on or before such effective date.
