N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 404-j: Registration and issuance of special number plates for veterans who survived the Pearl Harbor attack

§ 404-j. Registration and issuance of special number plates for

veterans who survived the Pearl Harbor attack. 1. Registration of

vehicles owned by veterans who survived the Pearl Harbor attack. The

commissioner shall assign to motor vehicles, owned by persons who while

on military duty serving in the armed forces of the United States

survived the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan on December seventh, nineteen

hundred forty-one or the spouse of such a person, a distinctive number

and issue and deliver in such manner as the commissioner may select to

the owner a certification of registration, in such form as the

commissioner shall prescribe and two number plates, called Pearl Harbor

attack veterans plates. Said plates shall conform to the requirements of

section four hundred one of this chapter, but shall bear the distinctive

words PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR to distinguish them from number plates to be

issued to other persons, qualifying under this chapter. The

commissioner, in his discretion, may issue, for any registration year,

only one plate as a set for a motor vehicle, in which event a set of

plates for a motor vehicle shall consist of one plate. If a distinctive

plate set is issued to a Pearl Harbor attack veteran pursuant to this

section, such a distinctive plate set shall not be issued to the spouse

of such veteran.

2. Issue of plates. The commissioner shall issue sets of plates to

such person in accordance with subdivision one of this section with

proof by such person or the spouse of such person that such person

survived the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan on December seventh, nineteen

hundred forty-one in a manner satisfactory to the commissioner who is

empowered to carry out the effects of this section by formulating rules

and regulations. Such plates shall not be considered as "vanity plates".

The plates authorized to be issued hereunder are special and are to be

issued in recognition of valiant service rendered by the veteran to the

United States.

3. Application for registration. (a) The application for registration

under this section shall be filed with the commissioner of motor

vehicles in such form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe,

setting forth such information as the commissioner may reasonably

prescribe beyond such information required under section four hundred

one of this chapter.

(b) Application under this section shall only apply to a vehicle

subject to registration pursuant to subdivision six of section four

hundred one of this chapter and as provided in subdivision one of this

section.

4. Fee. A special plate and registration issued pursuant to this

section shall be issued 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.