Provides for the issuance of distinctive license plates to the spouse of a congressional medal of honor recipient, and the transfer of distinctive license plates issued to congressional medal of honor recipients who are now deceased to their surviving spouse.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5521--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 7, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- 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 distinctive
license plates issued to congressional medal of honor recipients
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Sergeant
2 Gary Beikirch Memorial Act".
3 § 2. Section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter
4 486 of the laws of 1996, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 415 of the
5 laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
6 § 404-p. Distinctive plates for congressional medal of honor recipi-
7 ents. 1. Any congressional medal of honor recipient residing in this
8 state or the spouse of any such recipient shall, upon request, be
9 issued a license plate bearing the words "congressional medal of honor".
10 If a distinctive plate is issued to a congressional medal of honor
11 recipient pursuant to this section, additional distinctive plates may be
12 issued for every vehicle registered in the name of the congressional
13 medal of honor recipient residing in this state or the spouse of such
14 congressional medal of honor recipient. Application for said license
15 plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and detail as
16 the commissioner shall prescribe.
17 2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
18 satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant or the spouse of
19 the applicant is a congressional medal of honor recipient.
20 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
21 in the same manner as other number plates, provided, however, that no
22 registration fee or service charge shall be charged for such plate.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
24 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02686-06-3
