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                                  8866--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 22, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in
   accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee

 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
   the issuance of distinctive license plates for gold star fathers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 404-i of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
 chapter 277 of the laws of 1991, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 732
 of the laws of 2004, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 486 of the laws
 of  1996  and  such  section as renumbered by chapter 108 of the laws of
 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   § 404-i. Distinctive plates  for  gold  star  mothers  AND  GOLD  STAR
 FATHERS.  1. Any gold star mother OR GOLD STAR FATHER or the spouse of a
 gold star mother OR GOLD STAR FATHER, residing in this state shall, upon
 request,  be issued a license plate bearing the words "gold star mother"
 OR "GOLD STAR FATHER", RESPECTIVELY.  If a distinctive plate  is  issued
 to  a  gold  star  mother  OR GOLD STAR FATHER pursuant to this section,
 additional distinctive plates may be issued for every vehicle registered
 in the name of the gold star mother OR GOLD STAR FATHER recipient resid-
 ing in this state or the spouse of such gold star mother  OR  GOLD  STAR
 FATHER.  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 or the spouse of
 the applicant is a gold star mother OR GOLD STAR FATHER.
   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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD13823-02-8

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 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article,
 provided,  however,  that  no  service  charge shall be charged for such
 plate.
   §  2.  1. A distinctive gold star father plate established pursuant to
 section 404-i of the vehicle and traffic law  shall  only  be  designed,
 produced  and  issued upon the delivery to the department of motor vehi-
 cles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall
 be executed by a surety company authorized by the department  of  finan-
 cial  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  annual  service
 charge  applicable to each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no
 such surety bond shall be required. All service charges collected pursu-
 ant 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 development  fund  estab-
 lished  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.
   §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 section one of this act shall take effect on the one  hundred  eightieth
 day  after  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addi-
 tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  necessary  for
 the  implementation  of this act on its effective date are authorized to
 be made and completed on or before such effective date.