Bill Text: MI SB0847 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Vehicles; registration plates; use of "Great Lakes State" on standard design registration plates; require. Amends sec. 224 of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.224). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0845'16

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-08 - Referred To Committee On Commerce [SB0847 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0847-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 847

 

 

March 8, 2016, Introduced by Senators ZORN, BIEDA, BOOHER, HORN, HERTEL, BRANDENBURG, EMMONS, COLBECK and SCHMIDT and referred to the Committee on Commerce.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

 

"Michigan vehicle code,"

 

by amending section 224 (MCL 257.224), as amended by 2013 PA 179.

 

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.

 

     (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 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 40301 to 208; 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 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) The department shall offer a standard design registration

 

plate that complies with the requirements of this act. The standard

 

design registration plate shall be of a common color scheme and

 

design that is made of fully reflectorized material and shall be

 

clearly visible at night. The standard design registration plate

 

described in this subsection shall have the phrase "Great Lakes

 

State" inscribed beneath the registration numbers.

 

     (6) The department may use the Pure Michigan brand or a

 

successor or similar brand that is used in conjunction with this

 

state's promotion, travel, and tourism campaigns or marketing

 

efforts as part of the standard design for registration plates.

 

     (7) 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.

 

     (8) 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.

 

     (9) 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, or by assignment as provided in subsection (3).

 

     (10) 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.

 

     (11) Beginning on January 1, 2015, a registration plate issued

 

by the department under this section shall not be renewed 10 years

 

after the date that registration plate was issued. The owner of a

 

vehicle whose registration plate is no longer eligible for renewal

 

under this subsection shall obtain a replacement registration plate

 

upon payment of the fee required under section 804. For any

 

alphanumeric series that the department has retired from

 

circulation, upon request of the owner of a vehicle whose

 

registration plate is no longer eligible for renewal under this

 

subsection, the department may issue a new registration plate with

 

the same registration number as was displayed on the expired

 

registration plate as provided under section 803b.

 

     (12) The secretary of state, in conjunction with the

 

department of corrections, the Michigan state police, the Michigan

 

sheriffs' association, 1 individual appointed by the speaker of the

 

house of representatives, and 1 individual appointed by the senate

 

majority leader, shall prepare a report analyzing the viability of

 

moving from the current registration plate production process to a

 

digital printing of registration plates. The secretary of state

 

shall submit the report to the standing committees of the senate

 

and house of representatives with primary responsibility for

 

transportation issues no later than December 31, 2013.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.

 

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No. 845                                        

 

          of the 98th Legislature is enacted into law.