Section 491. Period of validity of identification card; required fees

1.
  Period of validity. An identification card shall be valid from the  date
  of issuance until the date of expiration determined by the commissioner,
  except  that  (a)  any person sixty-two years of age or older or (b) any
  recipient of supplemental security income benefits  defined  in  section
  two  hundred  eight  of the social services law, shall be eligible for a
  card which expires ten years after the date of issuance. Such  dates  of
  issuance  and  expiration  shall  be  noted  on the identification card.
  However, the prior identification card  shall  expire  on  the  date  of
  issuance   of   a   renewal  of  such  prior  identification  card.  The
  commissioner may extend the period of validity of an identification card
  in a manner and form prescribed by the commissioner.
    2. Fees. (a) The fee for an identification card shall be  fifty  cents
  for each six months, or any portion thereof of the identification card's
  validity, except that the fee which shall be charged for the issuance of
  any  original,  duplicate, or renewal identification card issued (i) any
  person sixty-two years  of  age  or  older  or  (ii)  any  recipient  of
  supplemental  security income benefits as defined in section two hundred
  eight of the social services law, shall be one dollar  and  fifty  cents
  for a period of ten years.
    (b)  The  fee for a duplicate of an identification card shall be three
  dollars.
    (c) In addition to other fees prescribed  herein,  an  additional  fee
  shall  be charged for the issuance of any original, duplicate or renewal
  identification card which contains a photograph of the holder. Such  fee
  shall  not  exceed  the  additional cost of providing a photograph on an
  identification card rounded to the next highest twenty-five cents.
    (d) There shall be no fee other than a fee prescribed in paragraph (c)
  of this subdivision for an amended identification card.
    (e) In addition to any  other  fee  prescribed  in  this  section,  an
  additional  fee  of  thirty  dollars shall be charged for any non-driver
  identification card, issued to a  New  York  state  resident  who  is  a
  citizen  of the United States, that can be used for certain land and sea
  border crossings pursuant to section 7209 of the Intelligence Reform and
  Terrorism Prevention Act of Two Thousand Four, Public  Law  108-458,  or
  the regulations promulgated thereunder.