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The saga of the issuance of Official New York license plates to people, businesses, and groups that are not a part of the government continues. Yesterday, the Daily News followed up with a story about how the New York Public Library received several sets of the plates for its vehicles. In case you didn't know, the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Borough Public Library are not a part of the city government, but instead are all private nonprofit corporations that get funding from the federal, state and city governments unlike some other libraries in the state which are directly part of local government. And of course the News mentioned they found vehicles with the Official plates parked illegally and free of parking tickets.
New York State Commission of Investigation Chairman Alfred Lerner revealed to the paper that there has been an ongoing criminal investigation into the DMV issuing the Official license plates to those who shouldn't be getting them. The DMV is launching its own review of all of the 154,000 Official license plates it has issued.
The Lindenwood Volunteer Ambulance Corps, one of the groups mentioned in the original Daily News article, issued a statement on its website:
6/12/07 - Lindenwood Volunteer Ambulance Corps (VAC) is a non-profit all volunteer EMS provider serving the communities of Ozone Park, South Ozone Park and Lindenwood for over thirty years. Lindenwood VAC was unaware of any improprieties in its recent registration of its marked response vehicle, until the Daily News article published on June 12, 2007.We did a review of some other states license plate issuing procedures reveal that several other states issue non-governmental emergency service providers plates that are not as specific as New York's Ambulance plate. For example, Virginia issues a Rescue Squad plate and Pennsylvania issues an Emergency Vehicle plate to organizations similar to the Lindenwood Volunteer Ambulance Corps for their response vehicles. Perhaps this whole mess will be the impetus for New York to come up with new types of license plates for these groups that are in these grey areas.Lindenwood VAC only recently added its first non-ambulance vehicle to its fleet of two ambulances and was unaware this marked and NYS Dept of Health certified vehicle was possibly plated incorrectly, as numerous volunteer EMS and Fire Departments within the City and neighboring counties were afforded “official” plates routinely. Lindenwood VAC never falsely represented itself as being other than a non-profit volunteer EMS provider to any city or state entity, including DMV officials during the registration process of the vehicle in question. Lindenwood VAC will fully cooperate with state officials for a swift resolution of this matter.
To ease registration confusion in the future, Lindenwood VAC feels that there should be some type of special plate for emergency vehicles that do not fall into current plating system. Similar to the “ambulance” plates issued, DMV should explore another registration type such as “public safety” or “emergency vehicle” or a general “exempt” registration type, for organizations that provide emergency services but whose vehicles are not government owned.
Photograph of 1968 New York official license plate by Triborough on flickr
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wait a second...does this have something to do with the police not doing their job? Or perhaps the police feeling they are above the law? Or perhaps the police feeling that thety are owed something for 9/11?
Whatever it is, it has to do with the police, which is not surprising.
This has nothing to do with the police not doing their job, but instead the DMV not doing its job.
go to www.uncivilservants.org for more details on parking abuse by official entities.
And yes, if the Traffic Enforcement Agents enforced "official" placards and plates stricter, this would not be a problem.
Or, cop wannabes.
those with your surplus Crown Vic PI's and red flashing lights. Blue is only for law enforcement.
or, how bout guys with their Chevy Caprices with that side mount spotlight?
If you wanna be a cop, join up.
post #4- who are you directing that comment to?
Under NYS Vehicle and Traffic law, Blue is for Volunteer Fire Fighter
(However a recent DMV commissioner ruling lets law enforcement display 1 blue light to the rear only, for safety)
NY only the Federal Law Enforcement have blue/red forward facing (because they are not subject to NYS VTL) and most fed vehicles in NYC run all red.
If you were a police officer you would have known this...
yes, red and blue. not just blue. or red or yellow.
do I have to spell everything out?
and, I wasn't directing at anyone, this is the internet. unless you took offense then that's too bad, again, this is the internet.
if you win the argument, you still lose.
again, this is the internet.
#6 - Maybe you need red and blue pills or maybe a red or a yellow pill for what you have or at least there should be a pill for that!!!
I guess you do have to s-p-e-l-l it out... I cant figure out the ramblings !!
Thanks for letting me know that this the internet, always wondered what the hell this thing was called!!
maybe you should mind your own business.
you'll live a better life. thank you again,
kind sir.
"maybe you should mind your own business.
you'll live a better life"
and maybe you should follow your own advice
I did, you're the fool who responded to
an anonymous internet posting.
Try minding your own business next time,
I know it's hard for you to but it would
lead to a much calmer life.
"Or, cop wannabes.
those with your surplus Crown Vic PI's and red flashing lights. Blue is only for law enforcement.
or, how bout guys with their Chevy Caprices with that side mount spotlight?
If you wanna be a cop, join up."
.... yep thats minding your own business, ok...then..
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I know it's hard for you to mind your own business, it must be hard for a person like you.
But you'll have a much better life if you just live your own life and not the life of others.
You be healthy now, you hear? In the end, we only have our health.
Minding your own business would be a start, sir.
It's no use, sir.
You cannot win, just let it go. Just admit you can't mind your own business and you're on the internet every second of the day.
I know it's hard for you to mind your own business, it must be hard for a person like you.
But you'll have a much better life if you just live your own life and not the life of others.
You be healthy now, you hear? In the end, we only have our health.
Minding your own business would be a start, sir.
It's no use, sir.
You cannot win, just let it go. Just admit you can't mind your own business and you're on the internet every second of the day.
I know it's hard for you to mind your own business, it must be hard for a person like you.
But you'll have a much better life if you just live your own life and not the life of others.
You be healthy now, you hear? In the end, we only have our health.
Minding your own business would be a start, sir.
It's no use, sir.
You cannot win, just let it go. Just admit you can't mind your own business and you're on the internet every second of the day.
I know it's hard for you to mind your own business, it must be hard for a person like you.
But you'll have a much better life if you just live your own life and not the life of others.
You be healthy now, you hear? In the end, we only have our health.
Minding your own business would be a start, sir.
*It's no use, sir.
You cannot win, just let it go. Just admit you can't mind your own business and you're on the internet every second of the day.
I know it's hard for you to mind your own business, it must be hard for a person like you.
But you'll have a much better life if you just live your own life and not the life of others.
You be healthy now, you hear? In the end, we only have our health.
Minding your own business would be a start, sir.