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                                 5907--A

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 8, 2013
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Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in
  accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
  amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
  tee

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
  the  commissioner  of  motor  vehicles  to  establish  gift  cards for
  distinctive and special number license plates

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

  Section  1. Section 404-oo of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
chapter 406 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
  S 404-oo. Deposit of service charges for distinctive  license  plates;
ISSUANCE  OF  GIFT CARDS.  1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision
of this chapter or of any other law, the first six thousand  dollars  of
service  charges  collected  for  issuance of distinctive license plates
established pursuant to this article on or after the effective  date  of
this  section  and, unless otherwise specified, any amounts in excess of
such six thousand dollars, shall be  deposited  to  the  credit  of  the
department  of  motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund estab-
lished pursuant to section ninety-five-g of the state  finance  law  and
shall  be  used for the production, design, advertising and distribution
of such distinctive license plates established pursuant to this  article
on or after the effective date of this section.
  2.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS ESTABLISH-
ING GIFT CARDS FOR DISTINCTIVE AND SPECIAL NUMBER LICENSE  PLATES.  SUCH
GIFT  CARDS  SHALL  BE  REDEEMABLE UPON PRESENTATION TO THE COMMISSIONER
WITH AN APPLICATION FOR THE ISSUANCE OR RENEWAL  OF  DISTINCTIVE  AND/OR
SPECIAL  NUMBER  LICENSE PLATES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE. NO
FEE SHALL BE CHARGED FOR THE ISSUANCE OF SUCH GIFT CARDS, NOR SHALL  ANY
FEES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SERVICE FEES AND DORMANCY OR INACTIV-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09025-02-4
              

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ITY  FEES,  BE  IMPOSED  UPON  SUCH GIFT CARDS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS
SUBDIVISION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS  SHALL  HAVE  THE  FOLLOWING  MEANINGS:
"DORMANCY  OR  INACTIVITY FEE" SHALL MEAN A FEE FOR NON-USE OF, OR INAC-
TIVITY  ON,  A  GIFT  CARD; "GIFT CARD" SHALL MEAN A CARD, CODE OR OTHER
DEVICE ISSUED TO A PERSON ON A PREPAID BASIS IN A  SPECIFIED  AMOUNT  IN
EXCHANGE  FOR  PAYMENT, AND WHICH IS REDEEMABLE UPON PRESENTATION TO THE
COMMISSIONER WITH AN APPLICATION FOR THE ISSUANCE OR RENEWAL OF DISTINC-
TIVE AND/OR SPECIAL NUMBER LICENSE PLATES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT  TO  THIS
ARTICLE;  AND  "SERVICE  FEE"  SHALL  MEAN A PERIODIC FEE FOR HOLDING OR
USING A GIFT CARD.
  S 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
law.