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H. 4749
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Townsend and Walker
Document Path: l:\council\bills\ggs\22451cm06.doc
Introduced in the House on March 2, 2006
Currently residing in the House Committee on Education and Public Works
Summary: Support Our Troops special license plates
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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3/2/2006 House Introduced and read first time HJ-8
3/2/2006 House Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works HJ-9
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TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING ARTICLE 57 TO CHAPTER 3, TITLE 56 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES MAY ISSUE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS 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:
Section 56-3-6500. (A) The Department of Motor Vehicles may issue Support Our Troops special license plates to owners of private passenger-carrying motor vehicles registered in their names. Support Our Troops, Inc. shall submit to the department for its approval the emblem, seal, or other symbol it desires to be used for this special license plate. Support Our Troops, Inc. must submit to the department written authorization to use a copyrighted or registered logo, trademark or design on the special license plate. The fee for each special license plate is fifty dollars every two years in addition to the regular motor vehicle license fee set forth in Article 5, Chapter 3 of this title. 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 Motor Vehicles to defray the expenses of the department in producing and administering this special license plate. The remaining funds collected from the special motor vehicle license fee must be distributed to Support Our Troops, Inc.
(C) Before the department produces and distributes the Support Our Troops special license plates pursuant to this section, it must receive:
(1) one hundred or more prepaid applications for the special license plate or four thousand dollars from the individual or organization seeking issuance of the license plate; and
(2) a plan to market the sale of the special license plate that must be approved by the department.
(D) If the department receives less than three hundred biennial applications and renewals for this special license plate, it may not produce additional special license plates in this series. The department shall continue to issue special license plates of this series until the existing inventory is exhausted."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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