N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 404-w*2: Distinctive plates for Persian Gulf veterans

* § 404-w. Distinctive plates for Persian Gulf veterans. 1. Any

Persian Gulf veteran or the spouse of any such veteran shall, upon

request, be issued a license plate bearing the words "Persian Gulf

Veteran". If a distinctive plate is issued to a veteran pursuant to this

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

such veteran. 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 Persian Gulf veteran.

3. For the purposes of this section, "Persian Gulf veteran" shall mean

a person who is a resident of this state, who served in the armed forces

of the United States in the hostilities that occurred in the Persian

Gulf from the second day of August, nineteen hundred ninety to the end

of such hostilities, and was (a) honorably discharged from the military,

or (b) has a qualifying condition, as defined in section one of the

veterans' services law, and has received a discharge other than bad

conduct or dishonorable from such service, or (c) is a discharged LGBT

veteran, as defined in section one of the veterans' services law, and

has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from

such service.

4. 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.

5. 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 four of this section will be sufficient to recover the

costs of the design and manufacture of such special plates.

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