404-U - Distinctive "keep kids drug free" license plates.

* §  404-u.  Distinctive  "keep kids drug free" license plates. 1. Any  person  residing  in  this  state  shall,  upon  request,  be  issued  a  distinctive "keep kids drug free" license plate in support of youth drug  prevention  and  treatment  programs. Application for such license plate  shall be filed with the commissioner in such  form  and  detail  as  the  commissioner shall prescribe.    2.  A  distinctive "keep kids drug free" license 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  plate.  The  additional service charge of twenty-five dollars  shall be deposited to  the  credit  of  the  office  of  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse  services  and  shall be used to support programs which  seek to reduce alcoholism and substance abuse among the youth population  in New York state through prevention  and/or  treatment.  Such  deposits  shall  not  be used to replace, offset, or supplant any existing funding  streams which  aid  the  office,  but  shall  be  in  addition  thereto.  Provided,  however,  that  one  year  after  the  effective date of this  section, funds in the amount  of  five  thousand  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-u's