Bill Text: GA HB128 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Special license plates; Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans; provide
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-14 - House Withdrawn, Recommitted [HB128 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-HB128-Introduced.html
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House
Bill 128
By:
Representatives Taylor of the
55th,
Yates of the
73rd,
Rice of the
51st,
Williams of the
165th,
and Holcomb of the
82nd
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 40-2-85.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to special license plates for veterans, so as to provide for a special license
plate for veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom; to
provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 40-2-85.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to special
license plates for veterans, is revised as follows:
"40-2-85.1.
(a)(1)
Motor vehicle owners who are retired veterans of the armed forces of the United
States or persons who served during World War I, World War II, the Korean War,
the Vietnam War,
or
Operation Desert
Storm,
Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi
Freedom shall be eligible to receive
special and distinctive vehicle license plates for private passenger cars,
trucks, or recreational vehicles used for personal transportation. Such license
plates shall be issued in compliance with the state motor vehicle laws relating
to registration and licensing of motor vehicles as prescribed in Article 2 of
this chapter.
(2)(A)
Motor vehicle owners who retired from active duty with the armed forces of the
United States shall be issued upon application for and upon compliance with the
state motor vehicle laws relating to registration and licensing of motor
vehicles a retired veteran's license plate. One such retired veteran's license
plate shall be issued without the requisite registration fee, manufacturing fee,
or annual registration fee.
(B)
Each retired member of the armed forces shall be entitled to no more than one
such free license plate at a time; provided, however, that upon payment of a
manufacturing fee of $25.00, a member shall be entitled to one additional such
license plate. For each additional license plate for which a $25.00
manufacturing fee is required, there shall be an additional annual registration
fee of $25.00 which fee shall be collected by the county tag agent at the time
of collection of other registration fees and shall be remitted to the state as
provided in Code Section 40-2-34.
(b)
The commissioner shall design a retired veteran's license plate or a distinctive
license plate to commemorate service by the United States armed forces in wars
listed in subsection (a) of this Code section. The commissioner shall
promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to enforce compliance
with all state license laws relating to the use and operation of private
passenger cars and trucks before issuing these license plates in lieu of the
regular Georgia license plates. The manufacturing fee for such special and
distinctive license plates shall be $25.00. The commissioner is specifically
authorized to promulgate all rules and regulations necessary to ensure
compliance in instances where such vehicles have been transferred or sold.
Except as provided in subsection (d) of this Code section, such plates shall be
nontransferable.
(c)
The special and distinctive vehicle license plates shall be as prescribed in
Article 2 of this chapter for private passenger cars or trucks used for personal
transportation. Such plates shall contain such words or symbols, in addition to
the numbers and letters prescribed by law, so as to identify distinctively the
owners as retired veterans of the armed forces of the United States or persons
who served during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War,
or
Operation Desert
Storm,
Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi
Freedom and shall additionally, for such
plates manufactured after July 1, 2001, identify distinctly the owner as a
veteran of one of the following branches of the armed forces: Army, Navy,
Marines, Air Force, or Coast Guard.
(d)
The license plate issued pursuant to this Code section shall be transferred
between vehicles as provided in Code Section 40-2-80. The spouse of a deceased
retired veteran of the armed forces of the United States or of a deceased person
who served during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War,
or
Operation Desert
Storm,
Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi
Freedom shall continue to be eligible to
be issued a distinctive personalized license plate as provided in this Code
section for any vehicle owned by such veteran ownership of which is transferred
to the surviving spouse or for any other vehicle owned by such surviving spouse
either at the time of the qualifying veteran's death or acquired thereafter, so
long as such person does not remarry.
(e)
Special license plates issued under this Code section, except as provided in
subparagraph (a)(2)(A) of this Code section, shall be renewed annually with a
revalidation decal as provided in Code Section 40-2-31 without payment of an
additional $25.00 annual registration fee. It shall be a requirement that a
county name decal shall be affixed and displayed on license plates issued under
this Code section."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.