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House Amendment 2a
H 3124 - Session 119 (2011-2012)
Special license plates
Reference is to the printers date: 6/2/11-S.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking SECTION 12 in its entirety which creates the 'Coon Hunter's' special license plate.
Amend the bill further, Section 56-3-8000(K), as contained in SECTION 22, by deleting / deposit / as contained on line 33, page 20, and inserting / fee /.
Amend the bill further Section 56-3-8100(J), as contained in SECTION 23, by deleting / deposit / as contain on line 24, page 22, and inserting / fee /.
Amend the bill further by deleting SECTION 25 in its entirety.
Amend the bill further, Section 56-3-12510(D) as contained in SECTION 27, page 25, by deleting Section 56-3-12510(D) and inserting:
/ (D) The requirements for production, collection, and distribution of fees for this license plate are those set for the in Section 56-3-8100. /
Amend the bill further by deleting SECTION 29, page 26 in its entirety and inserting:
/ SECTION 29. Chapter 3, Title 56 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
Section 56-3-12710. (A)
The Department of Motor Vehicles may issue
'2010 Baseball National Champions' special license plates to
owners of private passenger motor vehicles, as defined in
Section 56-3-630, or motorcycles, as defined in Section 56-3-20,
registered in their names.
(B) The University of
South Carolina may submit to the department for its approval the
emblem, seal, or other symbol it desires to be used for its
respective special license plate, provided that the phrase
'2010-11 National Baseball Champions' must be utilized on the
plate.
(C) The requirements
for production, collection, and distribution of fees for the
plate are those set forth in Section 56-3-8100. The biennial
fee for this plate is the regular registration fee set forth in
Article 5, Chapter 3 of this title plus an additional fee of
seventy dollars. Any portion of the additional seventy-dollar
fee not set aside by the Comptroller General to defray costs of
production and distribution must be distributed to the fund
established for the University of South Carolina pursuant to
Section 56-3-3710(B) used for the purposes provided in that
section.
(D) License number '1'
for the '2010-11 Baseball National Champions' license plate is
reserved for the University of South Carolina Head Baseball
Coach." /
Amend the bill further, Section 56-1-140, as contained in SECTION 31, pages 28 and 29, by deleting Section 56-1-140 in its entirety.
Amend the bill further Section 56-3-6000, as contained in SECTION 32, page 29 and 30, by deleting Section 56-3-6000, and inserting:
/ SECTION 32. Section 56-3-6000 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 56-3-6000.
(A) The department may issue a
distinct and separate special license
plates plate for the United States Army, the
United States Navy, the United States Marines Corps, the United
States Air Force, and the United States Coast Guard for use
on private passenger motor vehicles and motorcycles owned or
leased by residents of this State which separately honor
the United States Army, United States Navy, United States
Marines Corps, United States Air Force, and the United States
Coast Guard. The biennial fee for the
each special license plate issued for a branch of the
military is the regular motor vehicle license plate fee
contained in Article 5, Chapter 3 of this title plus thirty
dollars.
(B) Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, from the fees collected pursuant to this
section, the Comptroller General shall place sufficient funds
into a special restricted account to be used by the Department
of Motor Vehicles to defray the expenses of the Department of
Motor Vehicles in producing and administering the special
license plates. The remaining funds collected from the special
motor vehicle license fee must be administered by the
Department of Education and deposited in an appropriate account
designated by the Department of Education for distribution to
the ROTC program disbursed in equal amounts to the
various county Veterans' Administration offices to be used for
operational expenses.
(C) Before
the department produces and distributes a special license plate
pursuant to this section, it must receive:
(1) four
hundred prepaid applications for the special license plate or a
deposit of four thousand dollars from the individual or
organization seeking issuance of the license plate. If a
deposit of four thousand dollars is made by an individual or
organization pursuant to this section, the department must
refund the four thousand dollars once an equivalent amount of
license plate fees is collected for that organization's license
plate. If the equivalent amount is not collected within four
years of the first issuance of the license plate, then the
department must retain the deposit.
(2) a plan to
market the sale of the special license plate that must be
approved by the department Notwithstanding another
provision of law, the requirements for production, collection,
and distribution of fees for these license plates are those set
forth in Section 56-3-8100.
(D) If the
department receives less than three hundred biennial
applications and renewals for a particular license plate, it
shall not produce additional special license plates in that
series. The department shall continue to issue special license
plates of that series until the existing inventory is
exhausted.
(E)
The special license plates must be of the same
size and general design as regular motor vehicle license
plates. The department shall imprint the special
license plates with a distinctive emblem approved by the United
States Department of Defense and United States Department of
Transportation, as applicable, which distinguishes each branch
of the United States Armed Services." /
Amend the bill further SECTION 33, page 30, by deleting SECTION 33 and inserting:
/ SECTION 33. This act takes effect six months after approval by the Governor. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.