Bill Text: IL SB0957 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning reassignment of license plate numbers.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0957 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB0957-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB0957 Introduced 1/24/2013, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/3-421 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-421
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning reassignment of license plate numbers.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
Section 3-421 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/3-421) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-421)
Sec. 3-421. Right of reassignment. (a) Every natural person
shall have the the right of reassignment of the license number
issued to him during the current registration plate term, for
the ensuing registration plate term, provided his application
for reassignment is received in the Office of the Secretary of
State on or before September 30 of the final year of the
registration plate term as to a vehicle registered on a
calendar year, and on or before March 31 as to a vehicle
registered on a fiscal year. The right of reassignment shall
apply to every natural person under the staggered registration
system provided the application for reassignment is received in
the Office of the Secretary of State by the 1st day of the
month immediately preceding the applicant's month of
expiration.
In addition, every natural person shall have the right of
reassignment of the license number issued to him for a two-year
registration, for the ensuing two-year period. Where the

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two-year period is for two calendar years, the application for
reassignment must be received by the Secretary of State on or
before September 30th of the year preceding commencement of the
two-year period. Where the two-year period is for two fiscal
years commencing on July 1, the application for reassignment
must be received by the Secretary of State on or before April
30th immediately preceding commencement of the two-year
period.
(b) Notwithstanding the above provision, the Secretary of
State shall, subject to the existing right of reassignment,
have the authority to designate new specific combinations of
numerical, alpha-numerical, and numerical-alpha licenses for
vehicles registered on a calendar year or on a fiscal year,
whether the license be issued for one or more years. The new
combinations so specified shall not be subject to the right of
reassignment, and no right of reassignment thereto may at any
future time be acquired.
(Source: P.A. 80-230; 80-1185.)