South Carolina General Assembly
116th Session, 2005-2006

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Bill 613

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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ADOPTED

April 25, 2005

S. 613

Introduced by Senators Fair and Hutto

S. Printed 4/25/05--S.    [SEC 4/26/05 2:41 PM]

Read the first time March 10, 2005.

            

A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 56-3-8000, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A PORTION OF THE FEES FOR THESE SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES MUST BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE ORGANIZATION THAT SPONSORS THE SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE, AND TO REVISE THE NUMBER OF PREPAID APPLICATIONS FOR A SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE AND THE DEPOSIT THAT MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES FROM A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION BEFORE A SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE MAY BE PRODUCED.

Amend Title To Conform

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 56-3-8000(A) and (B) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 194 of 2002, is further amended to read:

"(A)    The department may issue special motor vehicle license plates to owners of private passenger-carrying motor vehicles or light pickups having an empty weight of seven thousand pounds or less and a gross weight of nine thousand pounds or less registered in their names which may have imprinted on the plate the emblem, a seal, or other symbol the department considers appropriate of an organization which has obtained certification pursuant to either Section 501(C)(3), 501(C)(7), or 501(C)(8) of the Federal Internal Revenue Code. The fee for this special license plate is the fee contained in Section 56-3-2020. 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 to defray the expenses associated with producing and administering the special license plate. The remaining funds collected from the special license plate fee must be placed in the general fund. If the 501(C)(3), 501(C)(7), or 501(C)(8) organization has been chartered for at least five years, a portion of the special license plate fee may be returned to the organization. Once four hundred new license plates or renewals have been issued, the special license plate fee funds must be distributed to the organization that requested the license plate.

The special license plate must be issued or revalidated for a biennial period which expires twenty-four months from the month it is issued.

(B)    Before the department produces and distributes a plate authorized under this section, it must receive:

(1)    four hundred or more prepaid applications for the special license plate or a deposit fee of four thousand dollars from the individual or organization seeking issuance of the license plate. If a deposit The fee 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 must be placed by the Comptroller General into a special restricted account to be used by the department to defray the expenses associated with the initial cost of producing the license plate.

(2)    a plan to market the sale of the special license plate which must be approved by the department."

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

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