404-S*3 - Distinctive "drive out diabetes" license plates.

* §  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