Bill Text: NY S04048 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04048 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S04048-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4048 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 6, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKELOS -- 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 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-x to read as follows: 3 S 404-X. 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 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09511-01-3