Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates for recipients of the conspicuous service cross or their spouses; requires payment of the regular registration fee and an additional, one-time service charge of ten dollars.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8179
IN SENATE
August 22, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
distinctive license plates for recipients of the conspicuous service
cross
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-x to read as follows:
3 § 404-x. Distinctive plates for conspicuous service cross recipients.
4 1. Any conspicuous service cross recipient residing in this state or the
5 spouse of any such recipient shall, upon request, be issued a license
6 plate bearing the words "conspicuous service cross recipient". If a
7 distinctive plate is issued to a conspicuous service cross recipient
8 pursuant to this section, such a distinctive plate shall not be issued
9 to the spouse of such conspicuous service cross recipient. Application
10 for said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form
11 and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
12 2. The distinctive plate authorized by this section shall be issued
13 upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant or the
14 spouse of the applicant is a conspicuous service cross recipient.
15 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
16 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
17 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article;
18 provided, however, that an additional, one-time service charge of ten
19 dollars shall be charged for such plate. Such annual service charge
20 shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section four hundred
21 four-oo of this article to the credit of the department of motor vehi-
22 cles distinctive plate development fund established by section ninety-
23 five-g of the state finance law and shall be used for the production,
24 design, advertising and marketing of distinctive license plates pursuant
25 to such section ninety-five-g.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
27 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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