Bill Text: NY S02019 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates distinctive license plates for members and supporters of the United States army 10th mountain division.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S02019 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-S02019-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2019 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. WALCZYK -- 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 creating distinctive license plates for the United States army 10th mountain division 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-ff to read as follows: 3 § 404-ff. Distinctive plates for the United States army 10th mountain 4 division. 1. a. Any member of the United States army 10th mountain divi- 5 sion residing in this state, shall, upon request, be issued a license 6 plate bearing the 10th mountain division insignia and the words "Member 7 of the United States Army 10th Mountain Division". Application for such 8 license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and 9 detail as the commissioner shall prescribe. No license plate shall be 10 issued to an applicant without verification that such applicant is a 11 member of the 10th mountain division of the United States army. 12 b. Any person residing in this state, shall, upon request, be issued a 13 license plate bearing the 10th mountain division insignia and the words 14 "Supporter of the United States Army 10th Mountain Division". Applica- 15 tion for such license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such 16 form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe. 17 c. Any veteran of the United States army 10th mountain division resid- 18 ing in this state, shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bear- 19 ing the 10th mountain division insignia and the words "Veteran of the 20 United States Army 10th Mountain Division". Application for such license 21 plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and detail as 22 the commissioner shall prescribe. No license plate shall be issued to 23 an applicant without verification that such applicant owns a registered 24 motor vehicle pursuant to section four hundred one of this article. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03301-01-5S. 2019 2 1 2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued 2 in the same manner as such other number plates upon the payment of the 3 regular registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this 4 article, provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of 5 twenty dollars shall be charged for such plate. Such annual service 6 charge shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section four 7 hundred four-oo of this article to the credit of the department of motor 8 vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section nine- 9 ty-five-g of the state finance law and shall be used for the production, 10 design, advertising and marketing of distinctive license plates pursuant 11 to such section ninety-five-g provided, however, that annual service 12 charges collected in excess of twenty-five hundred dollars shall be paid 13 by the state comptroller to the northern New York community foundation 14 for their scholarship program. 15 § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of 16 the vehicle and traffic law shall only be designed, produced and issued 17 upon the delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a surety bond 18 in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall be executed by a 19 surety company authorized by the department of financial services to 20 transact business in this state. Provided, however, that if the commis- 21 sioner of motor vehicles shall have received prior to plate design, 22 production and issuance at least two hundred orders for such distinctive 23 plate together with the additional annual service charge applicable to 24 each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no such surety bond 25 shall be required. All service charges collected pursuant to this 26 section shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo 27 of the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor 28 vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g 29 of the state finance law and shall be used for the design, production, 30 advertising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance 31 with such section 95-g. 32 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which 33 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two 34 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant 35 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of 36 such plates are sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles 37 shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate 38 to such shortfall. 39 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 40 section one of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth 41 day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addi- 42 tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for 43 the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to 44 be made and completed on or before such effective date.
