Vehicle and Traffic Law § 404-s · Article 14. Registration of Motor Vehicles
Distinctive "drive out diabetes" license plates
Text — Law content up to date as of October 30, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
* § 404-s. Distinctive "drive out diabetes" license plates. 1. Any person residing in this state shall upon request be issued a distinctive "drive out diabetes" license plate in support of diabetes research bearing the phrase "drive out diabetes". 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 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 plates. All monies received as the annual service charge under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the New York state "drive out diabetes research and education fund" established pursuant to section ninety-five-b of the state finance law and shall be used for research and education programs undertaken pursuant to article twenty-seven-H of the public health law as redesignated by chapter five hundred eighty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-eight. Provided, however that one year after the effective date of this section funds in the amount of seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be available, shall be allocated to the department to offset costs associated with the production of such license plates.
* NB There are 4 § 404-s's
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- The Senate's note "There are 4 § 404-s's": the Legislature enacted more than one unit under that number; each is printed.
- The Legislature enacted more than one section numbered 404-s; this is number 3 as the Senate prints them.
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