Assembly Bill A10980

                            
 
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                                   10980
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 29, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
   the  issuance of distinctive license plates to retired disabled police
   officers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 191 of the laws of 1991, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   2.  Registration  of  vehicles owned by severely disabled persons. The
 commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicles, including any  van  or
 pick-up  truck  used for transporting persons with disabilities which is
 not used for commercial purposes, owned by such persons,  a  distinctive
 number  and  issue  and  deliver  in such manner as the commissioner may
 select to the owner a certification of registration, in such form as the
 commissioner shall prescribe and  two  number  plates,  called  disabled
 person plates. Said disabled person plates shall conform to the require-
 ments  of  section  four  hundred  one  of  this chapter, but shall bear
 distinctive marks to distinguish them from number plates to be issued to
 other persons, qualifying under this chapter.   PROVIDED, HOWEVER,  THAT
 NO  SUCH  PLATES  SHALL BE ISSUED TO ANY PERSON TO WHOM THE COMMISSIONER
 HAS ISSUED DISTINCTIVE RETIRED DISABLED POLICE OFFICER  PLATES  PURSUANT
 TO  PARAGRAPH  (B) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-EE OF
 THIS ARTICLE. The commissioner, in his OR HER discretion, may issue, for
 any registration year, only one plate as a set for a motor  vehicle,  in
 which  event  a  set of disabled person plates for a motor vehicle shall
 consist of one plate. Where a severely disabled person  owns  more  than
 one  vehicle  and  such  vehicle  or vehicles is or are used by severely
 disabled members of the owner's family who reside with  the  owner,  the
 commissioner  shall  issue one set of plates for each additional vehicle
 used by such severely disabled person, provided that such user qualifies
 as a severely disabled person in the manner required by this section.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD16111-01-8

 A. 10980                            2
 
   § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 404-ee to read as follows:
   § 404-EE. DISTINCTIVE PLATES FOR RETIRED DISABLED POLICE OFFICERS.  1.
 (A) ANY RETIRED DISABLED POLICE OFFICER SHALL, UPON REQUEST, BE ISSUED A
 LICENSE  PLATE  BEARING  THE  WORDS  "NEW YORK STATE" ON THE TOP OF SAID
 LICENSE PLATE AND "RETIRED DISABLED POLICE OFFICER"  ON  THE  BOTTOM  OF
 SAID LICENSE PLATE.
   (B)  ANY RETIRED DISABLED POLICE OFFICER WHO HAS REGISTERED HIS OR HER
 MOTOR VEHICLE PURSUANT TO SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-A  OF  THIS  ARTICLE
 SHALL,  UPON  REQUEST, BE ISSUED A LICENSE PLATE BEARING THE DISTINCTIVE
 MARKS AUTHORIZED BY SUCH SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-A AND THE WORDS  "NEW
 YORK STATE" ON THE TOP OF THE LICENSE PLATE AND "RETIRED DISABLED POLICE
 OFFICER" ON THE BOTTOM OF SAID LICENSE PLATE.
   (C) APPLICATION FOR SAID LICENSE PLATE SHALL BE FILED WITH THE COMMIS-
 SIONER  IN  SUCH FORM AND DETAIL AS THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PRESCRIBE AND
 SHALL BE VERIFIED ANNUALLY BY THE APPLICANT.
   2. THE DISTINCTIVE PLATE AUTHORIZED IN PARAGRAPH  (A)  OF  SUBDIVISION
 ONE  OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  BE ISSUED UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY TO THE
 COMMISSIONER, THAT THE APPLICANT IS PRESENTLY A RETIRED DISABLED  POLICE
 OFFICER  WHO RECEIVES PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY BENEFITS.  THE DISTINC-
 TIVE PLATE AUTHORIZED IN  PARAGRAPH  (B)  OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS
 SECTION  SHALL  BE  ISSUED UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER,
 THAT THE APPLICANT IS PRESENTLY A RETIRED DISABLED  POLICE  OFFICER  WHO
 RECEIVES PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY BENEFITS AND WHOSE DISABILITY QUALI-
 FIES HIM OR HER AS A SEVERELY DISABLED PERSON WITHIN THE MEANING OF SUCH
 TERM  AS  DEFINED  IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-A OF
 THIS ARTICLE AND WHO HAS REGISTERED HIS OR HER MOTOR VEHICLE PURSUANT TO
 SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-A OF THIS ARTICLE.
   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 ANNUAL SERVICE CHARGE OF FIFTEEN
 DOLLARS SHALL BE CHARGED FOR SUCH PLATE.   SUCH  ANNUAL  SERVICE  CHARGE
 SHALL  BE  DEPOSITED  PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED
 FOUR-OO OF THIS ARTICLE, TO THE CREDIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR  VEHI-
 CLES  DISTINCTIVE  PLATE DEVELOPMENT FUND ESTABLISHED BY SECTION NINETY-
 FIVE-G OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW, AND SHALL BE USED FOR  THE  PRODUCTION,
 DESIGN, ADVERTISING AND MARKETING OF DISTINCTIVE LICENSE PLATES PURSUANT
 TO SUCH SECTION NINETY-FIVE-G.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law, except that any rules and regulations neces-
 sary  for  the  timely  implementation of this act on its effective date
 shall be promulgated on or before such date.