Vehicle and Traffic Law § 404-dd · Article 14. Registration of Motor Vehicles

Distinctive plates for members of AMVETS

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Text — Law content up to date as of October 30, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)

* § 404-dd. Distinctive plates for members of AMVETS. 1. Any member of AMVETS residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing the word "AMVETS". 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 herein shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant is a member of AMVETS.

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. For the purposes of this section, "AMVETS" shall mean the veterans service organization chartered by congress as a membership corporation created pursuant to chapter 227 of title 36 of the United States code.

* NB There are 2 § 404-dd's

Source of truth

Edition: Law content up to date as of October 30, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
Official file: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/VAT404-DD
Text hash: sha256 f1474a23200132ed617231d325eafb08557ea70aa87d1d0008048bcaf36c9718
Composed by: gen_ny_statutes.py 2026-11-10: the Senate's Open Legislation law tree (GET /api/3/laws/<ID>?full=true) read in document order; the Senate's PDF of the whole law (GET /pdf/laws/<ID>?full=true), read with PDFium, prints the same words in the same order

The Senate's note "There are 2 § 404-dd's": the Legislature enacted more than one unit under that number; each is printed.

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