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                                   3647
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER, SOLAGES, GALEF, COOK -- Multi-Sponsored
   by -- M. of A.  BLANKENBUSH, J. RIVERA -- read once  and  referred  to
   the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the state finance law,
   in relation to establishing a distinctive "New York recycles"  license
   plate

   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-ff to read as follows:
   §  404-FF.  DISTINCTIVE  "NEW  YORK  RECYCLES"  LICENSE PLATES. 1. ANY
 PERSON RESIDING IN THIS STATE SHALL, UPON REQUEST, BE ISSUED A  DISTINC-
 TIVE  "NEW  YORK  RECYCLES"  LICENSE  PLATE  OF  A  DESIGN DEVELOPED AND
 APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER, IN COOPERATION WITH  THE  NEW  YORK  STATE
 ASSOCIATION  FOR  REDUCTION,  REUSE  AND RECYCLING. APPLICATION FOR SUCH
 LICENSE SHALL BE FILED WITH THE COMMISSIONER IN SUCH FORM AND DETAIL  AS
 THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PRESCRIBE.
   2.  A DISTINCTIVE "NEW YORK RECYCLES" LICENSE PLATE ISSUED PURSUANT TO
 THIS SECTION SHALL BE ISSUED IN THE SAME MANNER AS OTHER  NUMBER  PLATES
 UPON  THE  PAYMENT OF THE REGULAR REGISTRATION FEE PRESCRIBED BY SECTION
 FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS ARTICLE, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT AN  ADDITIONAL
 ANNUAL  SERVICE  CHARGE OF TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS SHALL BE CHARGED FOR SUCH
 PLATE. EACH TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS RECEIVED AS  AN  ANNUAL  SERVICE  CHARGE
 UNDER  THIS  SECTION SHALL BE DEPOSITED TO THE CREDIT OF THE SOLID WASTE
 ACCOUNT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION  FUND  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO
 SECTION  NINETY-TWO-S  OF  THE  STATE  FINANCE LAW AND SHALL BE USED FOR
 MUNICIPAL WASTE REDUCTION OR RECYCLING PROJECTS, PURSUANT TO TITLE SEVEN
 OF ARTICLE FIFTY-FOUR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION  LAW.  PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER,  THAT  ONE YEAR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION, FUNDS
 IN THE AMOUNT OF FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, OR SO MUCH  THEREOF  AS  MAY  BE
 AVAILABLE, SHALL BE ALLOCATED FROM SUCH FUND TO THE DEPARTMENT TO OFFSET
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 COSTS  ASSOCIATED WITH THE PRODUCTION OF SUCH LICENSE PLATES EXCEPT THAT
 NO SUCH FUNDS SHALL BE SO ALLOCATED IF THE DEPARTMENT HAS RECEIVED FUNDS
 FOR SUCH PURPOSE FROM THE NEW  YORK  STATE  ASSOCIATION  FOR  REDUCTION,
 REUSE AND RECYCLING.
   §  2.  Subdivision  3  of  section  92-s  of the state finance law, as
 amended by section 3 of part PP of chapter 58 of the laws  of  2020,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   3.  Such  fund shall consist of the amount of revenue collected within
 the state from the amount of revenue, interest and  penalties  deposited
 pursuant  to  section  fourteen  hundred  twenty-one of the tax law, the
 amount of fees and penalties received from easements or leases  pursuant
 to  subdivision fourteen of section seventy-five of the public lands law
 and the money received as annual service  charges  pursuant  to  section
 four  hundred four-n of the vehicle and traffic law, all moneys required
 to be deposited therein from the contingency reserve  fund  pursuant  to
 section  two  hundred  ninety-four of chapter fifty-seven of the laws of
 nineteen hundred ninety-three, THE MONEY RECEIVED AS  ADDITIONAL  ANNUAL
 SERVICE  CHARGES PURSUANT TO SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-FF OF THE VEHICLE
 AND TRAFFIC LAW (THE ENTIRETY OF WHICH SHALL BE DEPOSITED TO THE  CREDIT
 OF  THE SOLID WASTE ACCOUNT), all moneys required to be deposited pursu-
 ant to section thirteen of chapter six hundred ten of the laws of  nine-
 teen  hundred ninety-three, repayments of loans made pursuant to section
 54-0511 of the environmental conservation law, all moneys to be deposit-
 ed from the Northville settlement pursuant to section one hundred  twen-
 ty-four  of  chapter  three hundred nine of the laws of nineteen hundred
 ninety-six, provided however, that such moneys shall only  be  used  for
 the  cost  of  the  purchase  of  private  lands in the core area of the
 central Suffolk pine barrens pursuant to a consent order with the North-
 ville industries signed on October thirteenth, nineteen hundred  ninety-
 four  and  the  related  resource  restoration and replacement plan, the
 amount of penalties required to be deposited therein by section  71-2724
 of  the environmental conservation law, all moneys required to be depos-
 ited pursuant to article thirty-three of the environmental  conservation
 law, all fees collected pursuant to subdivision eight of section 70-0117
 of  the environmental conservation law, all moneys collected pursuant to
 title thirty-three of article fifteen of the environmental  conservation
 law, beginning with the fiscal year commencing on April first, two thou-
 sand  thirteen, nineteen million dollars, and all fiscal years thereaft-
 er, twenty-three million dollars plus all funds received  by  the  state
 each  fiscal  year  in excess of the greater of the amount received from
 April first, two thousand twelve through March thirty-first,  two  thou-
 sand  thirteen  or  one  hundred twenty-two million two hundred thousand
 dollars, from the payments collected pursuant  to  subdivision  four  of
 section  27-1012  of  the  environmental  conservation law and all funds
 collected pursuant to section 27-1015 of the environmental  conservation
 law,  all  moneys  required to be deposited pursuant to sections 27-2805
 and 27-2807 of the environmental conservation law, all moneys  collected
 pursuant  to  section 71-2730 of the environmental conservation law, and
 all other moneys credited or transferred thereto from any other fund  or
 source  pursuant  to  law. All such revenue shall be initially deposited
 into the environmental protection fund, for application as  provided  in
 subdivision five of this section.
   §  3.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  6 of section 92-s of the state
 finance law, as amended by section 3 of part U of chapter 58 of the laws
 of 2016, is amended to read as follows:

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   (b) Moneys from the solid waste account shall be  available,  pursuant
 to appropriation and upon certificate of approval of availability by the
 director of the budget, for any non-hazardous municipal landfill closure
 project;  municipal  waste reduction or recycling project, as defined in
 article  fifty-four  of  the  environmental  conservation  law;  for the
 purposes of section  two  hundred  sixty-one  and  section  two  hundred
 sixty-four of the economic development law; any project for the develop-
 ment,  updating or revision of local solid waste management plans pursu-
 ant to sections 27-0107 and 27-0109 of  the  environmental  conservation
 law;  environmental  justice projects and grants and for the development
 of the pesticide sales and use data base pursuant  to  title  twelve  of
 article  thirty-three  of  the environmental conservation law; PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER, THAT MONEYS CREDITED TO SUCH ACCOUNT FROM THE MONEY RECEIVED AS
 ADDITIONAL ANNUAL SERVICE CHARGES PURSUANT TO SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-
 FF OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW SHALL BE  MADE  AVAILABLE  EXCLUSIVELY
 FOR  MUNICIPAL  WASTE  REDUCTION OR RECYCLING PROJECTS PURSUANT TO TITLE
 SEVEN OF ARTICLE FIFTY-FOUR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.