Waives the $28 fee for any kind of veterans custom plate; does not apply to plates with vanity lettering.

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S969-2013 Actions

• May 24, 2013: PRINT NUMBER 969A
• May 24, 2013: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION
• Jan 9, 2013: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

S969-2013 Meetings

Transportation: May 30, 2013

S969-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S969

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to custom plates for
veterans

PURPOSE:
This legislation waives the $28 fee for any kind of veterans custom
plate, excluding plates with vanity lettering.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends the vehicle and traffic law by adding new section
404-x, which states that the fee for custom veterans license plates
without vanity lettering will be waivered for veterans. The waiver
will not apply to custom veterans license plates with vanity lettering.

Section 2 effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
Veterans have served this country in such a heroic manner that can
never be repaid. They risked their lives for the sake of their
country, and they deserve whatever benefits we can offer them.
Veterans deserve the right to commemorable license plates free of
charge.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2007: S.3104- Passed Senate, A.7627- Died in Assembly

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of May next succeeding the
date on which it shall have become a law.

S969-2013 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                     969

                         2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                                 (PREFILED)

                               January 9, 2013
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  Sen.  LIBOUS -- 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  custom
    plates for 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.  CUSTOM PLATES FOR VETERANS, WAIVER OF FEE.  NOTWITHSTANDING
  ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE TWENTY-EIGHT DOLLAR  FEE
  FOR  CUSTOM PLATES IS HEREBY WAIVED IN THE CASE OF AN APPLICATION THERE-
  FOR BY ANY VETERAN OF SERVICE IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED  STATES.
  THIS  WAIVER  APPLIES  ONLY TO THE FEE FOR THE CUSTOM PLATE AND DOES NOT
  APPLY TO THE VETERAN CUSTOM PLATE WITH VANITY LETTERING.
    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of  May  next  succeeding
  the date on which it shall have become a law.





   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD05436-01-3