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Assembly Bill A9738

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides that combat action badge veterans may obtain distinctive license plates

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2011-A9738 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง404-x, V & T L

2011-A9738 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that Combat Action Badge veterans may obtain distinctive license plates.

2011-A9738 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9738

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 29, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. McENENY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  providing
  distinctive license plates for Combat Action Badge veterans

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

  Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
section 404-x to read as follows:
  S  404-X. DISTINCTIVE PLATES FOR COMBAT ACTION BADGE VETERANS.  1. ANY
VETERAN WHO HAS BEEN AWARDED THE COMBAT ACTION BADGE  RESIDING  IN  THIS
STATE  SHALL,  UPON REQUEST, BE ISSUED A LICENSE PLATE BEARING THE WORDS
"COMBAT ACTION BADGE VETERAN".  APPLICATION FOR SAID LICENSE PLATE SHALL
BE FILED WITH THE COMMISSIONER IN SUCH FORM AND DETAIL  AS  THE  COMMIS-
SIONER  SHALL  PRESCRIBE.  FOR  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "COMBAT ACTION
BADGE VETERAN" SHALL MEAN A PERSON WHO SERVED OR IS SERVING IN THE ARMED
FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES, WHO WAS AWARDED THE COMBAT ACTION BADGE AND
IF DISCHARGED WAS DISCHARGED THEREFROM  UNDER  OTHER  THAN  DISHONORABLE
CONDITIONS.
  2.  THE  DISTINCTIVE  PLATE AUTHORIZED BY THIS SECTION SHALL BE ISSUED
UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER, THAT THE  APPLICANT  IS  A
COMBAT ACTION BADGE VETERAN.
  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
REGISTRATION FEE PRESCRIBED BY SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS ARTICLE,
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT AN ADDITIONAL ONE-TIME  SERVICE  CHARGE  OF  TEN
DOLLARS SHALL BE CHARGED FOR SUCH PLATE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15110-01-2

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