* § 404-v. Distinctive plates for the arts and cultural institutions and museums. 1. Any person residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive New York state cultural institutions and museums license plate of a design approved by the commissioner. Application for such license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.

2. A distinctive New York state cultural institutions and museums plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regular registration fees 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. Fifteen dollars from each twenty-five dollars received as annual service charges under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the arts capital revolving fund established pursuant to section ninety-seven-z of the state finance law; 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 from such fund to the department to offset costs associated with the production of such license plate.

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