Bill Text: NY A05707 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates for active members of an auxiliary police department or company, or their spouse; imposes an additional fifteen dollar annual service charge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to transportation [A05707 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05707-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5707
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 14, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CURRAN, FINCH -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
          the  issuance  of  distinctive  license  plates to auxiliary police or
          their spouses
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 404-y to read as follows:
     3    § 404-y. Distinctive plates for auxiliary police.  1. Any member of an
     4  auxiliary police department or company in this state or  the  spouse  of
     5  such  member  shall,  upon request, be issued a distinctive number plate
     6  bearing the words "Auxiliary  Police".  Provided,  however,  that  if  a
     7  distinctive  plate  is issued to a member of an auxiliary police depart-
     8  ment or company pursuant to this section, no such plate shall be  issued
     9  to his or her spouse.  Application for said license plate shall be filed
    10  with  the commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner shall
    11  prescribe, and shall be verified annually by the applicant.
    12    2. The distinctive plate authorized in subdivision one of this section
    13  shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner,  that  the
    14  applicant  or  the spouse of the applicant is presently an active member
    15  of an auxiliary police department or company.
    16    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    17  in the same manner as other number plates upon payment  of  the  regular
    18  registration  fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article
    19  and an additional annual service charge of fifteen dollars.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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