What's happening
This bill eliminates the annual service charge and instead imposes a one-time $20 fee for volunteer ambulance service license plates.
Why it matters
Reduces ongoing costs for volunteer ambulance workers. By removing the annual service charge, volunteers will no longer face recurring fees for their service plates, providing them with a small but meaningful financial benefit.
Simplifies the fee structure. Replacing an annual charge with a one-time $20 fee makes the process easier to understand and manage, both for volunteers and for the state’s administrative systems.
May encourage volunteerism and plate uptake. Lowering the long-term cost and hassle of obtaining and keeping these plates could motivate more ambulance volunteers to display them, potentially boosting recognition and appreciation of their public service.
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End Yearly Ambulance Plate Fee
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Sponsors
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History
- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
Companion bill
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End Annual Plate Fees
In Senate Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Toby Ann Stavisky
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2697
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to eliminating the annual service charge for distinctive plates for members of volunteer ambulance services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 404-f of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 277 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:
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 [chapter] article and an [additional annual] initial one time service charge of [fifteen] twenty dollars.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08475-01-7
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