Bill Text: MI SB0991 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Vehicles; registration plates; registration plate recognizing the sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore as the most beautiful place in America. Amends sec. 224 of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.224).

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-29 - Referred To Committee On Transportation [SB0991 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-SB0991-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 991

 

 

February 29, 2012, Introduced by Senators BOOHER and HOPGOOD and referred to the Committee on Transportation.

 

 

 

     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.

 

     (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 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 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 of a common color scheme and design

 

that is made of fully reflectorized material and shall be 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.As an alternative to the standard design registration

 

plate required under this subsection, the secretary of state shall

 

develop and offer a vehicle registration plate recognizing the

 

sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore as the most beautiful place

 

in America. The vehicle registration plate recognizing the sleeping

 

bear dunes national lakeshore as the most beautiful place in

 

America shall comply with the requirements of this act.

 

     (6) The A 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 types of

 

registration plate plates as the type types of registration plate

 

plates 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.