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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9015--A
IN SENATE
May 4, 2022
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Introduced by Sens. COONEY, BROUK -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --
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 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. Section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
2 chapter 486 of the laws of 1996, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 415
3 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
4 § 404-p. Distinctive plates for congressional medal of honor recipi-
5 ents. 1. Any congressional medal of honor recipient residing in this
6 state, or the spouse of any such recipient, shall, upon request, be
7 issued a license plate bearing the words "congressional medal of honor".
8 Application for said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner
9 in such form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
10 2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
11 satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant is a congressional
12 medal of honor recipient.
13 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
14 in the same manner as other number plates, provided, however, that no
15 registration fee or service charge shall be charged for such plate. No
16 registration fee or service charge shall be charged for plates trans-
17 ferred to a surviving spouse, pursuant to the provisions of subdivision
18 four of this section.
19 4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the commis-
20 sioner shall transfer a distinctive plate issued pursuant to this
21 section to the surviving spouse of a deceased congressional medal of
22 honor recipient if such surviving spouse so requests within one hundred
23 eighty days following the death of such congressional medal of honor
24 recipient, or within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of
25 this subdivision where such congressional medal of honor recipient
26 predeceased such effective date. The commissioner shall promulgate any
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 rules or regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this
2 subdivision.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
4 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
5 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
6 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
7 on or before such effective date.
