S 0025 General Bill, By Land and Leventis
 A BILL TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING ARTICLE
 108 TO CHAPTER 3, TITLE 56 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF "DR. MARY
 MCLEOD BETHUNE" SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES.

   12/01/10  Senate Prefiled
   12/01/10  Senate Referred to Committee on Transportation
   01/11/11  Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 18)
   01/11/11  Senate Referred to Committee on Transportation
                     (Senate Journal-page 18)

TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING ARTICLE 108 TO CHAPTER 3, TITLE 56 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF "DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE" SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES.

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:

"Article 108

Section 56-3-10810.    (A)    The Department of Motor Vehicles may issue Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune special license plates to owners of private passenger carrying motor vehicles, as defined in Section 56-3-630, or motorcycles registered in their names which shall have imprinted on burgundy and gold license plates 'Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune', her image, her year of birth and year of death, her place of birth, the acronyms of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Council of Negro Women, and Bethune Cookman College, Mayesvillesc.com, and the sentence 'I leave you love.' Twin City Outreach Mission shall submit to the department for its approval a design it desires to be used for this special license plate. Twin City Outreach Mission may request a change in the design not more than once every five years. The fee for this special license plate is thirty dollars every two years in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration fee set forth in Article 5, Chapter 3, Title 56. This special license plate must be of the same size and general design of regular motor vehicle license plates. This special license plate must be issued or revalidated for a biennial period which expires twenty-four months from the month it is issued.

(B)    The fees collected pursuant to this section above the cost of the regular motor vehicle registration fee must be distributed in the following manner:

(1)    seventy-five percent to Twin City Outreach Mission to:

(a)    fund the construction and operation of the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Museum and Restaurant;

(b)    fund the construction of the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Nature Trail;

(c)    promote tourism in the Town of Mayesville, Sumter County, South Carolina; and

(d)    promote other projects related to Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, tourism that will impact economic development and job creation for the citizens of Mayesville, Sumter County, and South Carolina; and

(2)    twenty-five percent to the Town of Mayesville to be used for operational and program opportunity matching funds."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.