Bill Text: CA AB1096 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vehicles: specialized license plates: Salton Sea.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-16 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 353, Statutes of 2014. [AB1096 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1096-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1096	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 2, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 14, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nestande
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member V. Manuel Pérez)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to  amend Section 5151 of, and to  add
Section 5162  to,   to  the Vehicle Code,
relating to vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1096, as amended, Nestande. Vehicles: specialized license
plates: Salton Sea.
    Under existing law, a state agency is authorized to apply to the
Department of Motor Vehicles    (DMV)  to sponsor a
specialized license plate program, and the  department
  DMV  is required to issue those license plates if
the agency meets certain requirements. Existing law also requires
the  department   DMV  to charge specified
fees for certain services related to the issuance of those plates.
   This bill would  include the Salton Sea Joint Powers
Authority within the definition of state agency for the purposes of
these provisions. The bill would  authorize the 
authority   Department of Fish and Wildlife  to
apply to the  department   DMV  to sponsor
a special Salton Sea license plate program, and would require the
 department   DMV  to issue the license
plates if the  authority   Department of Fish
and Wildlife  meets certain requirements. The bill would require
the plates issued under the program to bear a full-plate graphic
design, as specified, and would require the payment of an additional
fee by a person applying for the special plate. The bill would also
require the revenue generated from the license plates, as specified,
to be deposited in the Salton Sea Restoration Account created by the
bill in the Specialized License Plate Fund.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   
  SECTION 1.    Section 5151 of the Vehicle Code is
amended to read:
   5151.  (a) As used in this article, "state agency" means a state
office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, or commission,
any other state body or agency, or the Salton Sea Joint Powers
Authority.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that this article contain
the authority for specialized license plates for state agencies.

   SEC. 2.   SECTION 1.   Section 5162 is
added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   5162.  (a) The  Salton Sea Joint Powers Authority
  Department of Fish and Wildlife  may apply to the
department, pursuant to Section 5156, to sponsor a Salton Sea
license plate program. The department shall issue specialized license
plates for that program if the  Salton Sea Joint Powers
Authority   Department of Fish and Wildlife 
complies with the requirements of Section 5156.
   (b) Notwithstanding Section 5155, the Salton Sea license plates
shall bear a full-plate graphic that the department determines, in
consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol,
does not obscure the readability of the license plate, and that
depicts an image to be designated by the  Salton Sea Joint
Powers Authority.   Department of Fish and Wildlife.

   (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 5157, the
additional fees prescribed by Section 5157 for the issuance, renewal,
or transfer of the specialized license plates shall be deposited,
after the department deducts its administrative costs, in the Salton
Sea Restoration Account, which is hereby created in the Specialized
License Plate Fund.