2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 4 - Registration of Vehicles › Article 14 - Registration of Motor Vehicles › 404-J - Registration and Issuance of Special Number Plates for Veterans Who Survived the Pearl Harbor Attack.

§ 404-j. Registration  and  issuance  of  special  number  plates  for
veterans who survived  the  Pearl  Harbor  attack.  1.  Registration  of
vehicles  owned  by  veterans  who survived the Pearl Harbor attack. The
commissioner shall assign to motor vehicles, owned by persons who  while
on  military  duty  serving  in  the  armed  forces of the United States
survived the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan on December seventh,  nineteen
hundred  forty-one  or the spouse of such a person, a distinctive number
and issue and deliver in such manner as the commissioner may  select  to
the  owner  a  certification  of  registration,  in  such  form  as  the
commissioner shall prescribe and two number plates, called Pearl  Harbor
attack veterans plates. Said plates shall conform to the requirements of
section four hundred one of this chapter, but shall bear the distinctive
words PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR to distinguish them from number plates to be
issued   to   other   persons,   qualifying   under  this  chapter.  The
commissioner, in his discretion, may issue, for any  registration  year,
only  one  plate  as  a set for a motor vehicle, in which event a set of
plates for a motor vehicle shall consist of one plate. If a  distinctive
plate  set  is  issued to a Pearl Harbor attack veteran pursuant to this
section, such a distinctive plate set shall not be issued to the  spouse
of such veteran.
2.  Issue  of  plates.  The commissioner shall issue sets of plates to
such person in accordance with subdivision  one  of  this  section  with
proof  by  such  person  or  the  spouse of such person that such person
survived the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan on December seventh,  nineteen
hundred  forty-one  in  a manner satisfactory to the commissioner who is
empowered to carry out the effects of this section by formulating  rules
and regulations. Such plates shall not be considered as "vanity plates".
The  plates  authorized to be issued hereunder are special and are to be
issued in recognition of valiant service rendered by the veteran to  the
United States.
3.  Application for registration. (a) The application for registration
under this section  shall  be  filed  with  the  commissioner  of  motor
vehicles  in  such  form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe,
setting forth  such  information  as  the  commissioner  may  reasonably
prescribe  beyond  such  information required under section four hundred
one of this chapter.
(b) Application under this section  shall  only  apply  to  a  vehicle
subject  to  registration  pursuant  to  subdivision six of section four
hundred one of this chapter and as provided in subdivision one  of  this
section.
4.  Fee.  A  special  plate  and  registration issued pursuant to this
section shall be issued 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.