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                                  3936--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2017
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
   tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
   mitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the issuance
   of specialty plates for members of AMVETS
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
 section 404-dd to read as follows:
   § 404-DD. DISTINCTIVE PLATES FOR MEMBERS OF AMVETS. 1. ANY  MEMBER  OF
 AMVETS  RESIDING  IN THIS STATE SHALL, UPON REQUEST, BE ISSUED A LICENSE
 PLATE BEARING THE WORD "AMVETS".  APPLICATION  FOR  SAID  LICENSE  PLATE
 SHALL  BE  FILED  WITH  THE  COMMISSIONER IN SUCH FORM AND DETAIL AS THE
 COMMISSIONER SHALL PRESCRIBE.
   2. THE DISTINCTIVE PLATE AUTHORIZED HEREIN SHALL BE ISSUED UPON PROOF,
 SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER, THAT THE  APPLICANT  IS  A  MEMBER  OF
 AMVETS.
   3. A DISTINCTIVE PLATE ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE ISSUED
 IN  THE  SAME  MANNER AS OTHER NUMBER PLATES UPON PAYMENT OF THE REGULAR
 REGISTRATION FEE PRESCRIBED BY SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS ARTICLE,
 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT AN ADDITIONAL ONE-TIME  SERVICE  CHARGE  OF  TEN
 DOLLARS SHALL BE CHARGED FOR SUCH PLATE.
   4.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "AMVETS" SHALL MEAN THE VETERANS
 SERVICE ORGANIZATION CHARTERED BY CONGRESS AS A  MEMBERSHIP  CORPORATION
 CREATED PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 227 OF TITLE 36 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE.
   § 2. Subdivision 1-a of section 404 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 amended  by  chapter  103  of  the  laws  of 2016, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1-a. The commissioner may issue special number  plates  to  applicants
 who  are  members  of veterans organizations in the same manner as other
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 number plates are issued pursuant to this article. Such  special  number
 plates  shall  be  issued  only  upon  (a) payment of a one-time service
 charge of ten dollars  in  addition  to  the  regular  registration  fee
 prescribed  by  section  four  hundred  one  of  this  article,  and (b)
 submission of proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that  the  appli-
 cant  is  presently a member of the veterans organization for which such
 plate is requested. Such membership shall be verified  annually  by  the
 applicant.  Application for such plates shall be made in accordance with
 regulations promulgated by the commissioner with respect to the issuance
 of such plates. Provided, however, that nothing contained  herein  shall
 be  deemed  to  supersede the provisions of section four hundred four-d,
 four hundred four-e, four hundred  four-h,  four  hundred  four-i,  four
 hundred  four-j,  four  hundred  four-k,  four hundred four-p [or], four
 hundred four-aa, OR FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-DD of this article.
   § 3. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-dd  of
 the  vehicle  and  traffic law as added by section one of this act shall
 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to  the  depart-
 ment  of  motor  vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand
 dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized  by  the
 department  of  financial  services  to transact business in this state.
 Provided, however, that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have
 received prior to plate design, production and  issuance  at  least  two
 hundred  orders  for such distinctive plate together with the additional
 one-time service charge applicable to each such order,  which  shall  be
 non-refundable,  no  such  surety  bond shall be required.   All service
 charges collected pursuant to this section shall be  deposited  pursuant
 to  the  provisions  of section 404-oo of the vehicle and traffic law to
 the credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate  devel-
 opment  fund  established  by  section 95-g of the state finance law and
 shall be used for the design, production, advertising  and  distribution
 of distinctive license plates in accordance with such section 95-g.
   2.  If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which
 distinctive plates in the  series  are  first  available  for  sale  two
 hundred  or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant
 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of
 such plates are sold by such time,  the  department  of  motor  vehicles
 shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate
 to such shortfall.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall  have  become  a law; provided, however, that section three of
 this act shall take effect immediately; provided further, however,  that
 effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
 tive  date  is  authorized  and  directed to be made and completed on or
 before such effective date.