Bill Text: NY A08595 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the issuance of distinctive license plates for "Ducks Unlimited".
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - signed chap.114 [A08595 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A08595-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8595--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY December 2, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transporta- tion in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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 issuance of distinctive license plates for "Ducks Unlimited" 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-x to read as follows: 3 § 404-x. Distinctive "Ducks Unlimited" license plates. 1. Any person 4 residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive 5 license plate bearing the name and logo of "Ducks Unlimited". Applica- 6 tion for said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such 7 form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe. 8 2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued 9 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular 10 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article; 11 provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of twenty- 12 five dollars shall be charged for such plate. 13 § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-x of 14 the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of this act shall 15 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart- 16 ment of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall 17 be executed by a surety company authorized by the department of finan- 18 cial services to transact business in this state. Provided, however, 19 that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have received prior to 20 plate design, production and issuance at least two hundred orders for 21 such distinctive plate together with the additional annual service 22 charge applicable to each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11935-04-6A. 8595--A 2 1 such surety bond shall be required. All such service charges shall be 2 deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle 3 and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor vehicles 4 distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g of the 5 state finance law and shall be used for the design, production, adver- 6 tising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance with 7 such section 95-g. 8 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which 9 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two 10 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant 11 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of 12 such plates are sold by such time, such department shall be entitled to 13 recover against the bond in an amount proportionate to such shortfall. 14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 15 section one of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth 16 day after it shall have become a law; provided further, however, that 17 effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule 18 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec- 19 tive date is authorized and directed to be made and completed on or 20 before such effective date.
