Assembly Bill A7769A

                            
 
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                                  7769--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 15, 2017
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on  Trans-
   portation  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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 creating the
   New York state veterans remembrance license plate
 
   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-ee to read as follows:
   § 404-EE. DISTINCTIVE PLATES FOR THE NEW YORK  STATE  VETERANS  REMEM-
 BRANCE.  1.  ANY  VETERAN  OR THE SPOUSE OF ANY SUCH VETERAN SHALL, UPON
 REQUEST, BE ISSUED A LICENSE  PLATE  BEARING  THE  WORDS  "NYS  VETERANS
 REMEMBRANCE".  IF A DISTINCTIVE PLATE IS ISSUED TO A VETERAN PURSUANT TO
 THIS SECTION, SUCH A DISTINCTIVE PLATE SHALL NOT BE ISSUED TO THE SPOUSE
 OF SUCH VETERAN.  APPLICATION FOR SUCH LICENSE PLATE SHALL BE FILED WITH
 THE COMMISSIONER IN SUCH FORM  AND  DETAIL  AS  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL
 PRESCRIBE.
   2. THE DISTINCTIVE PLATE AUTHORIZED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION
 SHALL  BE  ISSUED UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER, THAT THE
 APPLICANT OR THE SPOUSE OF THE APPLICANT IS A VETERAN.
   3. A DISTINCTIVE PLATE ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE ISSUED
 IN THE SAME MANNER AS OTHER NUMBER PLATES UPON THE PAYMENT OF THE  REGU-
 LAR  REGISTRATION  FEE  PRESCRIBED  BY  SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS
 ARTICLE; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT AN ADDITIONAL ANNUAL SERVICE CHARGE  OF
 TWENTY-FIVE  DOLLARS  SHALL  BE  CHARGED  FOR  SUCH  PLATES. 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 VEHICLES DISTINCTIVE PLATE DEVELOPMENT FUND ESTABLISHED BY SECTION
 NINETY-FIVE-G  OF  THE  STATE  FINANCE  LAW,  AND  SHALL BE USED FOR THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 PRODUCTION, DESIGN, ADVERTISING AND  MARKETING  OF  DISTINCTIVE  LICENSE
 PLATES  PURSUANT  TO SUCH SECTION NINETY-FIVE-G; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
 ANNUAL SERVICE CHARGES COLLECTED IN EXCESS OF SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS SHALL
 BE  DEPOSITED  TO  THE  CREDIT  OF THE VETERANS REMEMBRANCE AND CEMETERY
 MAINTENANCE OPERATION FUND AND SHALL BE  USED  FOR  FURTHERANCE  OF  THE
 MAINTENANCE  AND  OPERATION  OF  STATE  VETERANS CEMETERIES, PURSUANT TO
 SECTION NINETY-SEVEN-MMMM OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW.
   § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ee  of
 the  vehicle  and  traffic law as added by section one of this act shall
 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to  the  depart-
 ment  of  motor  vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand
 dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized  by  the
 department  of  financial  services  to transact business in this state.
 Provided, however, that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have
 received prior to plate design, production and  issuance  at  least  two
 hundred  orders  for such distinctive plate together with the additional
 annual service charge applicable to each  such  order,  which  shall  be
 non-refundable,  no such surety bond shall be required. All such service
 charges shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section  404-oo
 of  the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor
 vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section  95-g
 of  the  state finance law and shall be used for the design, production,
 advertising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance
 with such section 95-g.
   2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon  which
 distinctive  plates  in  the  series  are  first  available for sale two
 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered  pursuant
 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
 such  plates are sold by such time, such department shall be entitled to
 recover against the bond in an amount proportionate to such shortfall.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 section  one  of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth
 day after it shall have become a law; provided  further,  however,  that
 effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
 tive  date  are  authorized  and directed to be made and completed on or
 before such effective date.