A9738-2011 Actions

• Mar 29, 2012: referred to transportation

A9738-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         9738
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 March 29, 2012
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. McENENY -- read once and referred to the Commit
 tee on Transportation
 

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  providing
 distinctive license plates for Combat Action Badge veterans
 

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-x to read as follows:

 

S  404-X. DISTINCTIVE PLATES FOR COMBAT ACTION BADGE VETERANS.  1. ANY
 VETERAN WHO HAS BEEN AWARDED THE COMBAT ACTION BADGE  RESIDING  IN  THIS
 STATE  SHALL,  UPON REQUEST, BE ISSUED A LICENSE PLATE BEARING THE WORDS
 "COMBAT ACTION BADGE VETERAN".  APPLICATION FOR SAID LICENSE PLATE SHALL
 BE FILED WITH THE COMMISSIONER IN SUCH FORM AND DETAIL  AS  THE  COMMIS
 SIONER  SHALL  PRESCRIBE.  FOR  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "COMBAT ACTION
 BADGE VETERAN" SHALL MEAN A PERSON WHO SERVED OR IS SERVING IN THE ARMED
 FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES, WHO WAS AWARDED THE COMBAT ACTION BADGE AND
 IF DISCHARGED WAS DISCHARGED THEREFROM  UNDER  OTHER  THAN  DISHONORABLE
 CONDITIONS.
 2.  THE  DISTINCTIVE  PLATE AUTHORIZED BY THIS SECTION SHALL BE ISSUED
 UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER, THAT THE  APPLICANT  IS  A
 COMBAT ACTION BADGE VETERAN.
 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.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15110-01-2

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