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Assembly Bill A9564

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Allows widows, widowers, parents, stepparents, siblings, grandparents, children or stepchildren to purchase gold star plates; eliminates registration fee for such plate

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2011-A9564 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง404-i, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A5530

2011-A9564 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows widows, widowers, parents, stepparents, siblings, grandparents, children or step-children to purchase gold star plates; eliminates registration fee for such plates.

2011-A9564 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9564

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 16, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GABRYSZAK  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  permitting
  widows,  widowers, parents, stepparents, siblings, grandparents, chil-
  dren or stepchildren to purchase "gold star family" license plates and
  eliminates the registration fee for such plate

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 404-i of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
chapter 277 of the laws of 1991, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 732
of the laws of 2004, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 486 of the laws
of  1996,  and  as  renumbered  by  chapter  108 of the laws of 1994, is
amended to read as follows:
  S 404-i. Distinctive plates for gold star [mothers] FAMILIES.  1.  Any
gold star [mother or the spouse of a gold star mother] WIDOW OR WIDOWER,
PARENT  OR  STEPPARENT,  SIBLING  OR STEP-SIBLING, GRANDPARENT, CHILD OR
STEPCHILD residing in this  state  shall,  upon  request,  be  issued  a
license  plate  bearing  the  words  "gold star [mother] FAMILY".   If a
distinctive plate is issued to a gold star [mother] FAMILY MEMBER pursu-
ant to this section, additional distinctive plates  may  be  issued  for
every  vehicle  registered  in the name of the gold star [mother] FAMILY
MEMBER recipient residing in this state [or the spouse of such gold star
mother].  Application for said license plate shall  be  filed  with  the
commissioner   in  such  form  and  detail  as  the  commissioner  shall
prescribe.
  2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant [or the  spouse  of
the applicant] is a gold star [mother] FAMILY MEMBER.
  3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
in  the same manner as other number plates [upon payment of the regular]
EXCEPT THAT NO registration fee [prescribed by section four hundred  one
of  this article, provided, however, that no] OR service charge shall be
charged for such plate.
  4. THE DISTINCTIVE PLATE NUMBER SHALL BE  COMPRISED  OF  THE  DATE  OF
BIRTH OF THE DECEASED MILITARY RELATIVE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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