Vehicle and Traffic Law § 404-p · Article 14. Registration of Motor Vehicles
Distinctive "Animal Population Control Fund" license plates
Text — Law content up to date as of October 30, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
* § 404-p. Distinctive "Animal Population Control Fund" license plates. 1. On or after October first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, any person residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive "Animal Population Control Fund" license plate of a design approved by the commissioner. Application for said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
2. A distinctive Animal Population Control Fund plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regular registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such plate. All monies received as annual service charges under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the animal population control fund established pursuant to section ninety-seven-xx of the state finance law, and shall be used for animal population control programs undertaken pursuant to section one hundred seventeen-a of the agriculture and markets law.
* NB There are 2 § 404-p's
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- Law content up to date as of October 30, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
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- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/VAT404-P
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- The Senate's note "There are 2 § 404-p's": the Legislature enacted more than one unit under that number; each is printed.
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