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Senate Bill S6582

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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2025-S6582 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4824
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §404-b, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7258, A4939

2025-S6582 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S6582 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6582 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6582
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK  --  read  twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation
 
 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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