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

Distinctive lupus awareness license plates

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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-y. Distinctive lupus awareness license plates. 1. Any person residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive license plate in support of lupus awareness and research bearing the phrase "Lupus Awareness". 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 twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such plates.

3. Each twenty-five dollars received as the annual service charge under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the "lupus research and education fund" established pursuant to section ninety-seven-pppp of the state finance law and shall be used for research and education programs undertaken pursuant to section ninety-seven-pppp of the state finance law.

* NB There are 6 § 404-y'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-Y%2A5
Text hash: sha256 f47673a6c25e3515e82027455c951e423701d0e91dd43a86bc775fe4eb06be9a
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 6 § 404-y's": the Legislature enacted more than one unit under that number; each is printed.
The Legislature enacted more than one section numbered 404-y; this is number 5 as the Senate prints them.

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