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A1382Assembly2019-2020 SessionSame asS336

Create Fire Police Plates

Official title

“Authorizes the creation and issuance of a distinctive license plate for fire police”

Sponsor Clifford CrouchAD-122+3 co-sponsorsAffects Transportation
Status
In Assembly Committee
Transportation
Impact
2/10
Minimal
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Transportation

What's happening

This bill allows fire police members and their spouses to obtain special "Fire Police" license plates for their vehicles.

Why it matters

  1. Grants formal recognition to fire police. by allowing them (and their spouses) to display their affiliation on their vehicles, which could help in establishing identity at emergency scenes or in their communities.

  2. Facilitates easier identification by the public and other first responders. , potentially improving coordination and access during emergencies or while performing official fire police duties.

  3. Requires proof of eligibility and a one-time ten dollar service charge. , ensuring that only verified fire police members and their spouses can obtain these plates, and helping to cover the administrative and production costs.

  4. Limits plate issuance to one per eligible household. (either the fire police member or their spouse, but not both), which may curb potential misuse and keeps the program manageable for the DMV.

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Create Fire Police Plates

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Clifford Crouch

Assembly Member · Assembly District 122

History

  1. Held for consideration in transportation
  2. Referred to transportation
  3. Referred to transportation

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S336Senate

Fire Police License Plates

In Senate Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Fredrick J. Akshar II

Impact 2 · Minimal0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

1382

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 15, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, BRABENEC, MORINELLO, RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HAWLEY, M. L. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the issuance of distinctive plates for fire police

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-ff to read as follows:

§ 404-ff. Distinctive plates for fire police. 1. Any person who is a member of the fire police or the spouse of any such person shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing the words "Fire Police". If a distinctive plate is issued to a person pursuant to this section, such a distinctive plate shall not be issued to the spouse of such person. 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 in subdivision one of this section shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant or the spouse of the applicant is a member of the fire police.

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 article provided, however, that an additional one time service charge of ten dollars shall be charged for such plate.

4. Nothing contained herein shall require the issuance of a special number plate under this section unless the commissioner is satisfied that the aggregate amount of annual service charges collected pursuant to subdivision three of this section will be sufficient to recover the costs of the design and manufacture of such special plates.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April 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.

LBD03038-01-9

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