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                                   5474
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 10, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to discontinu-
   ing service fees for distinctive license plates issued to veterans
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 404-h of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 415 of the laws of 2001, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   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].
   § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 404-j of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 amended by chapter 415 of the laws  of  2001,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4.  Fee.  A  special  plate  and  registration issued pursuant to this
 section shall be issued upon payment of  the  regular  registration  fee
 prescribed by section four hundred one of this article [provided, howev-
 er,  that  an additional one-time service charge of ten dollars shall be
 charged for such plate].
   § 3. Subdivision 3 of section 404-k of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 amended by chapter 415 of the laws  of  2001,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   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].
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   § 4. Subdivision 3 of section 404-v of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 added by chapter 490 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   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  arti-
 cle[,  provided,  however, that an additional one-time service charge of
 ten dollars shall be charged for such plate. 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 funds to the department to offset  costs  associated
 with the production of such license plates].
   § 5. Subdivision 3 of section 404-w of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 added by chapter 105 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
   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  arti-
 cle[,  provided,  however, that an additional one-time service charge of
 ten dollars shall be charged for such plate].
   § 6. Subdivision 4 of section 404-w of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 added by chapter 493 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
   4. 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].
   § 7. Subdivision 1-a of section 404 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 amended  by  chapter  105  of  the  laws  of 2017, 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
 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, PROVIDED THAT
 SUCH SERVICE CHARGE SHALL BE WAIVED FOR ANY APPLICANT  WHO  HAS  BEEN  A
 MEMBER  OF  THE  VETERANS  ORGANIZATION  FOR FIVE OR MORE YEARS, 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, four hundred
 four-aa, or four hundred four-dd of this article.
   § 8. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.