2021 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 4 - Registration of Vehicles
Article 14 - Registration of Motor Vehicles
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 was (a) honorably discharged from the military,
  or (b) has a qualifying condition, as defined in section  three  hundred
  fifty  of the executive law, and has received a discharge other than bad
  conduct or dishonorable from such service, or (c) is a  discharged  LGBT
  veteran, as defined in section three hundred fifty of the executive law,
  and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from
  such service.
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