Bill Text: MI HB4036 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Vehicles; registration plates; renewal of "Auto Centennial" registration plates and renewal of registration plates 12 years or more after issuance; prohibit. Amends sec. 224 of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.224).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-23 - Printed Bill Filed 01/23/2013 [HB4036 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4036-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4036

 

January 22, 2013, Introduced by Rep. Geiss and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

 

     A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

 

"Michigan vehicle code,"

 

by amending section 224 (MCL 257.224), as amended by 2006 PA 177.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 224. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this act

 

regarding tabs or stickers, upon registering a vehicle, the

 

secretary of state shall issue to the owner 1 registration plate.

 

     (2) A registration plate shall display the registration number

 

assigned to the vehicle for which the registration plate is issued;

 

the name of this state, which may be abbreviated; and when the

 

registration plate expires, which may be shown by a tab or sticker

 

furnished by the secretary of state. A registration plate or scheme

 

shall exclusively display, disseminate, or convey information in a

 

visual manner, and shall not indicate the age or relative age of a

 

registered owner or vehicle operator through the use of color,

 

number, letter, symbol, or other method.

 

     (3) A registration plate issued for motor vehicles owned and

 

operated by this state; a state institution; a municipality; a

 

privately incorporated, nonprofit volunteer fire department; or a

 

nonpublic, nonprofit college or university of this state shall does

 

not expire at any particular time but shall be renewed when the

 

registration plate is worn out or is illegible. This registration

 

plate shall be assigned upon proper application and payment of the

 

applicable fee and may be used on any eligible vehicle titled to

 

the applicant if a written record is kept of the vehicles upon

 

which the registration plate is used. The written record shall

 

state the time the registration plate is used on a particular

 

vehicle. The record shall be open to inspection by a law

 

enforcement officer or a representative of the secretary of state.

 

     (4) A registration plate issued for a vehicle owned by the

 

civil air patrol as organized under 36 USC 201 to 208; 40301 to

 

40307; a vehicle owned by a nonprofit organization and used to

 

transport equipment for providing dialysis treatment to children at

 

camp; an emergency support vehicle used exclusively for emergencies

 

and owned and operated by a federally recognized nonprofit

 

charitable organization; a vehicle owned and operated by a

 

nonprofit veterans center; a motor vehicle having a truck chassis

 

and a locomotive or ship's body which that is owned by a nonprofit

 

veterans organization and used exclusively in parades and civic

 

events; a vehicle owned and operated by a nonprofit recycling

 

center or a federally recognized nonprofit conservation

 

organization until December 31, 2000; a motor vehicle owned and

 

operated by a senior citizen center; and a registration plate

 

issued for buses including station wagons, carryalls, or similarly

 

constructed vehicles owned and operated by a nonprofit parents'

 

transportation corporation used for school purposes, parochial

 

school, society, church Sunday school, or other grammar school, or

 

by a nonprofit youth organization or nonprofit rehabilitation

 

facility shall be issued upon proper application and payment of the

 

applicable tax provided in section 801(1)(g) or (h) to the

 

applicant for the vehicle identified in the application. The

 

vehicle shall be used exclusively for activities of the school or

 

organization and shall be designated by proper signs showing the

 

school or organization operating the vehicle. The registration

 

plate shall expire on December 31 in the fifth year following the

 

date of issuance. The registration plate may be transferred to

 

another vehicle upon proper application and payment of a $10.00

 

transfer fee.

 

     (5) Beginning January 1, 2007, the The department shall not

 

issue or transfer a standard design beads on paint registration

 

plate or issue a registration tab or sticker for that plate, but

 

shall offer a new standard design registration plate that complies

 

with the requirements of this act, . The new standard design

 

registration plate shall be is of a common color scheme and design,

 

that and is made of fully reflectorized material and shall be that

 

is clearly visible at night. The implementation of this subsection

 

is contingent upon appropriations sufficient to cover the costs to

 

the department of designing, manufacturing, distributing, and

 

issuing the new standard design registration plate. The secretary

 

of state shall file a written report with the secretary of the

 

senate and the clerk of the house of representatives of the costs

 

incurred and revenue expended to meet the requirements of this

 

subsection within 30 days after all of the standard design beads on

 

paint registration plates to be replaced under this subsection have

 

been replaced.

 

     (6) The registration plate and the required letters and

 

numerals on the registration plate shall be of sufficient size to

 

be plainly readable from a distance of 100 feet during daylight.

 

The secretary of state may issue a tab or tabs designating the

 

month and year of expiration.

 

     (7) The secretary of state shall issue for every passenger

 

motor vehicle rented without a driver the same type of registration

 

plate as the type of registration plate issued for private

 

passenger vehicles.

 

     (8) A person shall not operate a vehicle on the public

 

highways or streets of this state displaying a registration plate

 

other than the registration plate issued for the vehicle by the

 

secretary of state, except as provided in this chapter for

 

nonresidents, and by assignment provided in subsection (3).

 

     (9) The registration plate displayed on a vehicle registered

 

on the basis of elected gross weight shall indicate the elected

 

gross weight for which the vehicle is registered.

 

     (10) Beginning January 1, 2013, the department shall not renew

 

an auto centennial registration plate.

 

     (11) Except as otherwise provided in this section, beginning

 

June 1, 2013, a registration plate newly or previously issued by

 

the department under this section shall not be renewed after a

 

period of 12 years from the date of the plate's issuance. The owner

 

of a vehicle whose registration plate is prohibited from being

 

renewed under this subsection shall pay the same fee for a new

 

registration plate as the fee required for a duplicate or

 

replacement standard or graphic standard plate under section 804.

 

On October 1, 2013 and annually thereafter, the department shall

 

provide a report to the legislature that contains all of the

 

following information:

 

     (a) An itemization of all expenses incurred by the department

 

in complying with this subsection.

 

     (b) The number of registration plates required to be replaced

 

under this subsection.

 

     (c) The cost of programming and production.

 

     (d) Whether any manufactured registration plate lots or series

 

contained registration plates that violated any promulgated

 

standards or vendor warranties, or were subsequently found to be

 

relatively substandard by the department, administration designee,

 

or contractual agent.