* § 404-y. Distinctive sickle cell disease awareness license plates. 1. Any person residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive license plate in support of sickle cell disease awareness and research bearing the phrase "Sickle Cell Disease Awareness". 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 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.

3. Each twenty-five dollars received as the annual service charge under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the "sickle cell disease research and education fund" established pursuant to section ninety-seven-pppp of the state finance law and shall be used for research and education programs undertaken pursuant to section ninety-seven-pppp of the state finance law.

* NB There are 6 § 404-y's