What's happening
This bill authorizes the creation and issuance of "West Indian American Day Carnival" distinctive license plates in New York.
Why it matters
Celebrates and recognizes West Indian American culture. by authorizing a specialty license plate, which can promote cultural pride and visibility for a significant New York community.
Creates a potential fundraising mechanism. since the additional $25 annual service charge is directed to the state’s distinctive plate development fund, supporting the design, production, and distribution of specialty plates.
Includes financial safeguards for state resources. by requiring either a $6,000 surety bond or at least 200 pre-paid orders before the plates are produced, minimizing the risk of financial loss if there’s low demand.
Establishes a demand threshold for ongoing issuance. so if fewer than 200 sets are sold in the first two years, the state can recoup costs via the bond, ensuring that only popular or community-supported plates remain available.
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Create Carnival License Plates
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History
- Signed chap.124
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–0
- 3rd reading cal.2076
- Substituted for S9012
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.89
- Rules report cal.89
- Reported
Show 6 earlier actions
- Reported referred to rules
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 2620a
- Amend (t) and recommit to transportation
- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
Companion bill
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West Indian Carnival Plates
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Roxanne J. Persaud
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2620--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. PERRY -- 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 committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to issuing "West Indian American Day Carnival" distinctive license plates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 404-ee to read as follows:
§ 404-ee. Distinctive "West Indian American Day Carnival" license plates. 1. Any person residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive "West Indian American Day Carnival" license plate of a design approved by the commissioner. Application for said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
2. 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 annual service charge of twentyfive dollars shall be charged for such plate.
§ 2.1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ee of the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of this act shall only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the department of financial 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
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annual service charge applicable to each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no such surety bond shall be required. All service charges collected pursuant 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 established 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 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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