N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 404-l: Distinctive regional design plates

§ 404-l. Distinctive regional design plates. 1. On or after October

first, nineteen hundred ninety-two, any person residing in this state

shall, upon request, be issued a license plate with a distinctive

regional design approved by the commissioner. The commissioner may also

issue such distinctive plates with special numerals and/or letters

requested by the applicant. 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

thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents shall be charged for such

plates, and provided that a further additional annual service charge of

thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents shall be charged for any such

plate containing specially requested numerals and/or letters. Provided,

however, in lieu of the annual fee specified herein, the commissioner

may establish specific categories of plates for which an annual fee of

not less than eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents nor more than

thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents may be charged subject to the

approval of the director of the division of the budget. Notwithstanding

any inconsistent provision of this section, the difference collected

between the annual service charge or fee set forth in this subdivision

in effect on and after September first, two thousand nine and the annual

service charge or fee set forth in this subdivision in effect prior to

such date shall be deposited to the credit of the dedicated highway and

bridge trust fund.