404-W*2 - Distinctive plates for Persian Gulf veterans.

* §  404-w.  Distinctive  plates  for  Persian  Gulf  veterans. 1. Any  Persian Gulf veteran or the spouse  of  any  such  veteran  shall,  upon  request,  be  issued  a  license  plate  bearing the words "Persian Gulf  Veteran". If a distinctive plate is issued to a veteran pursuant to this  section, such a distinctive plate shall not be issued to the  spouse  of  such  veteran.    Application for said license plate shall be filed with  the commissioner in such form  and  detail  as  the  commissioner  shall  prescribe.    2. The distinctive plate authorized in subdivision one of this section  shall  be  issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the  applicant or the spouse of the applicant is a Persian Gulf veteran.    3. For the purposes of this section, "Persian Gulf veteran" shall mean  a person who is a resident of this state, who served in the armed forces  of the United States in the hostilities that  occurred  in  the  Persian  Gulf  from  the second day of August, nineteen hundred ninety to the end  of such hostilities, and were honorably discharged from the military.    4. 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 one time  service  charge  of  ten  dollars shall be charged for such plate.    5.  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 four of this section will be sufficient  to  recover  the  costs of the design and manufacture of such special plates.    * NB There are 2 § 404-w's