404-R - Distinctive "foreign organization" license plates.

* §  404-r.  Distinctive "foreign organization" license plates. 1. The  commissioner may issue special number plates bearing the words  "foreign  organization"  to applicants of a foreign organization recognized by the  United States. Applications for said license plate shall be  filed  with  the  commissioner  in  said  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 an entity  of  a  foreign government recognized by the United States before January first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-nine  without  diplomatic  relations with the  United States. Such plates may be  issued  for  passenger  vehicles  and  light  commercial  motor  vehicles  with  a manufacturers rated carrying  capacity of one ton or less.    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 annual service  charge  of  thirty  dollars shall be charged for such plate.    4.  Nothing  contained  herein shall require the issuance of a special  number plate under this section unless  the  commissioner  is  satisfied  that  the  aggregate amount of annual service charges collected pursuant  to subdivision three of this section will be sufficient to  recover  the  costs of the design and manufacture of such special number plates.    * NB There are 2 § 404-r's