Assembly Bill A4824

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the spouses of certain volunteer firefighters to be issued a distinctive license plate for volunteer firefighters

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A4824 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6582
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §404-b, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A4939, S7258

2025-A4824 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the spouses of certain volunteer firefighters to be issued a distinctive license plate for volunteer firefighters.

2025-A4824 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4824
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. E. BROWN, MAHER, DeSTEFANO, DURSO -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
   the  spouses of certain volunteer firefighters to be issued a distinc-
   tive license plate for volunteer firefighters

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 404-b of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 277 of the laws of 1991, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   1.  Any  member  of  any  volunteer fire department or company in this
 state [or] AND the spouse of any such member  shall,  upon  request,  be
 issued  a  license plate bearing a Maltese cross and the letters "V.F.".
 [If a distinctive plate is issued to any such member  pursuant  to  this
 section,  such  a distinctive plate shall not be issued to the spouse of
 such member.] Application for [said] SUCH license plate shall  be  filed
 with  the commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner shall
 prescribe, and shall be verified  annually  by  the  applicant  AND  THE
 SPOUSE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01818-01-5

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