Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4334 Primary Sponsor:Walker Committee Number:21 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Motor vehicle dealer license plates Residing Body:House Current Committee:Education and Public Works Computer Document Number:DKA/3066AL.94 Introduced Date:19940111 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940111 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Walker Allison Vaughn Littlejohn Wells D. Wilder D. Smith Haskins Sharpe J. Wilder Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved
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4334 House 19940111 Introduced, read first time, 21
referred to Committee
4334 House 19931201 Prefiled, referred to 21
Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 56-3-2320, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO ISSUANCE OF DEALER LICENSE PLATES, SO AS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PLATES ISSUED TO CERTAIN DEALERS AND TO REDUCE THE FEE FOR THOSE PLATES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The first paragraph of Section 56-3-2320(A) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Section 105, Part II, Act 164 of 1993, and Act 181 of 1993, is further amended to read:
"(A) Upon application being made and the required fee being paid to the department, the department may issue dealer license plates to a licensed motor vehicle dealer. The license plates, notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, may be used exclusively on motor vehicles owned by, or assigned to the dealer when operated on the highways of this State by the dealer, its corporate officers, its employees, or a prospective purchaser of the motor vehicle. The use by a prospective purchaser is limited to seven days and the dealer must provide the prospective purchaser with a dated demonstration certificate. The certificate must be approved by the department. Dealer plates may not be used to operate wreckers or service vehicles in use by the dealer, nor to operate vehicles owned by the dealer that are leased or rented by the public. No dealer plates may be issued by the department unless the dealer furnishes proof in a form acceptable to the department that he has a retail business license as required by Chapter 36 of Title 12 and has made at least fifty sales of motor vehicles in the twelve months preceding his application for a dealer plate. The sales requirement may be waived by the department if the dealer has been licensed for less than one year. However, a dealer that sells less than fifty but more than ten vehicles in the twelve months preceding his application for a dealer plate is eligible to obtain one two dealer license plate plates. The cost of this each plate is three hundred twenty dollars. Twenty dollars of this fee must be remitted to the department and the balance of this fee must be remitted to the treasury of the county in which the dealer is licensed."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies to all dealer license plates issued beginning July 1, 1993. A dealer who purchased a plate for three hundred dollars is entitled to a refund upon application to the Department of Revenue and Taxation.