Senate Bill S4609A

                            
 
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                                  4609--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 21, 2017
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 Introduced  by  Sens. GRIFFO, RITCHIE, TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accord-
   ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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 distinctive
   plates for legion of valor recipients
 
   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-z to read as follows:
   § 404-Z. DISTINCTIVE PLATES FOR LEGION OF  VALOR  RECIPIENTS.  1.  ANY
 PERSON  WHO  IS  A  RECIPIENT  OF THE ARMY MEDAL OF HONOR, NAVY MEDAL OF
 HONOR, AIR FORCE MEDAL OF HONOR, ARMY DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS,  NAVY
 CROSS,  COAST  GUARD  CROSS,  OR  AIR FORCE CROSS RESIDING IN THIS STATE
 SHALL, UPON REQUEST, BE ISSUED A LICENSE PLATE BEARING THE WORDS "LEGION
 OF VALOR" AND DEPICTING THE INDIVIDUAL'S MILITARY AWARD DECAL.  APPLICA-
 TION 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 IS AN ARMY MEDAL OF
 HONOR, NAVY MEDAL OF HONOR, AIR FORCE MEDAL OF HONOR, ARMY DISTINGUISHED
 SERVICE CROSS, NAVY CROSS, COAST GUARD CROSS, OR AIR FORCE CROSS RECIPI-
 ENT.
   3. A DISTINCTIVE PLATE ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE ISSUED
 IN  THE  SAME  MANNER AS OTHER NUMBER PLATES, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT NO
 REGISTRATION FEE OR SERVICE CHARGE SHALL BE CHARGED FOR SUCH PLATE.
   § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section  404-z  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 a surety bond in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 be  executed  by a surety company authorized by the department of finan-
 cial 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,  adver-
 tising 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 is authorized and directed to be  made  and  completed  on  or
 before such effective date.