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Senate Bill S3539

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Waives the registration fee and service charge for distinctive plates for certain volunteer firefighters and certain members of volunteer ambulance services

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2025-S3539 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5673
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§404-b & 404-f, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7658, A9803

2025-S3539 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Waives the registration fee and service charge for distinctive plates for volunteer firefighters and members of volunteer ambulance services where the applicant has attended twenty-five percent or more of the emergency calls for the previous year.

2025-S3539 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3539 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3539
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to waiving  the
   registration fee and service charge for distinctive plates for certain
   volunteer  firefighters  and  certain  members  of volunteer ambulance
   services
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 3 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:
   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].
 THE  registration  fee  prescribed  by  section four hundred one of this
 [chapter] ARTICLE and [an]  THE  initial  one  time  service  charge  of
 fifteen  dollars  SHALL  BE  WAIVED  FOR ONE SET OF PLATES FOR EACH SUCH
 APPLICANT UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER, THAT THE  APPLI-
 CANT HAS ATTENDED TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OR MORE OF THE EMERGENCY CALLS FOR
 THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
   § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 404-f of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 amended  by  chapter  277  of  the  laws  of 1991, is amended to read as
 follows:
   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].
 THE registration fee prescribed by section  four  hundred  one  of  this
 [chapter]  ARTICLE  and  [an]  THE  additional  annual service charge of
 fifteen dollars SHALL BE WAIVED FOR ONE SET  OF  PLATES  FOR  EACH  SUCH
 APPLICANT  UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER, THAT THE APPLI-
 CANT HAS ATTENDED TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OR MORE OF THE EMERGENCY CALLS FOR
 THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08017-01-5

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