New York A 4399: Creates the New York state veterans remembrance license plate

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A04399 Summary:

BILL NOA04399 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORGallahan

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Add §404-ff, V & T L

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Creates the New York state veterans remembrance license plate; provides that any proceeds shall go to the credit of the veterans remembrance and cemetery maintenance operation fund.

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BILL NOA04399 

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02/04/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4399

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. GALLAHAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to creating the
 New York state veterans remembrance license plate

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 404-ff to read as follows:
 3 § 404-ff. Distinctive plates for the New York state veterans remem-
 4 brance. 1. Any veteran or the spouse of any such veteran shall, upon
 5 request, be issued a license plate bearing the words "NYS Veterans
 6 Remembrance". If a distinctive plate is issued to a veteran pursuant to
 7 this section, such a distinctive plate shall not be issued to the spouse
 8 of such veteran. Application for such license plate shall be filed with
 9 the commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner shall
 10 prescribe.
 11 2. The distinctive plate authorized in subdivision one of this section
 12 shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the
 13 applicant or the spouse of the applicant is a veteran.
 14 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
 15 in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regu-
 16 lar registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this
 17 article; provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of
 18 twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such plates. Such annual
 19 service charge shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section
 20 four hundred four-oo of this article, to the credit of the department of
 21 motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section
 22 ninety-five-g of the state finance law, and shall be used for the
 23 production, design, advertising and marketing of distinctive license
 24 plates pursuant to such section ninety-five-g; provided, however, that
 25 annual service charges collected in excess of six thousand dollars shall

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07186-01-5

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 1 be deposited to the credit of the veterans remembrance and cemetery
 2 maintenance operation fund and shall be used for furtherance of the
 3 maintenance and operation of state veterans cemeteries, pursuant to
 4 section ninety-seven-mmmm of the state finance law.
 5 § 2. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of
 6 the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of this act shall
 7 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart-
 8 ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand
 9 dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the
 10 department of financial services to transact business in this state.
 11 Provided, however, that if the commissioner of motor vehicles shall have
 12 received prior to plate design, production and issuance at least two
 13 hundred orders for such distinctive plate together with the additional
 14 annual service charge applicable to each such order, which shall be
 15 non-refundable, no such surety bond shall be required. All such service
 16 charges shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo
 17 of the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor
 18 vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g
 19 of the state finance law and shall be