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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.1239 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:20020423 Primary Sponsor:Richardson All Sponsors:Richardson Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\ggs\22518cm02.doc Residing Body:House Current Committee:Education and Public Works Committee 21 HEPW Subject:Veterans special license plate History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 20020430 Introduced, read first time, 21 HEPW referred to Committee Senate 20020425 Read third time, sent to House Senate 20020424 Read second time, ordered to third reading with notice of general amendments ------ 20020424 Scrivener's error corrected Senate 20020423 Introduced, read first time, placed on Calendar without reference Versions of This Bill Revised on April 23, 2002 - Word format Revised on April 24, 2002 - Word format
INTRODUCED
April 23, 2002
S. 1239
S. Printed 4/23/02--S. [SEC 4/24/02 2:36 PM]
Read the first time April 23, 2002.
TO AMEND CHAPTER 3, TITLE 56, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BY ADDING ARTICLE 94, SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A SOUTH CAROLINA VETERANS SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Chapter 3, Title 56 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
Section 56-3-9300. (A) The department may issue South Carolina Veterans special license plates to owners of private passenger-carrying motor vehicles registered in their names. The fee for each special license plate is twenty-five dollars every two years in addition to the regular motor vehicle license fee set forth in Article 5. Each special license plate must be of the same size and general design of regular motor vehicle license plates. Each special license plate must be issued or revalidated for a biennial period which expires twenty-four months from the month the special license plate is issued.
(B) Of 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 Public Safety to defray the expenses of the Motor Vehicle Division in producing and administering this special license plate. The remaining funds collected from the special motor vehicle license fee must be distributed to the United States Veterans Monument Commission.
(C) Before the department produces and distributes the South Carolina Veterans special license plates pursuant to this section, it must receive:
(1) four hundred or more 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 shall 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 respective license plate, the department shall retain the deposit;
(2) a plan to market the sale of the special license plate which must be approved by the department.
(D) If the department receives less than three hundred biennial applications and renewals for a particular special license plate, it may 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."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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