(2) All original appointments to the board shall be made not | 30 |
later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, | 31 |
and all vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the | 32 |
original appointment. Members of the board shall serve without | 33 |
compensation but shall be reimbursed for the actual expenses they | 34 |
incur in performing their duties. The director of agriculture or | 35 |
the director's designee shall serve as chairperson. The board | 36 |
shall adopt rules governing their meetings and proceedings. | 37 |
(C) There is hereby established the Ohio agriculture license | 38 |
plate scholarship program to benefit students who attend an | 39 |
institution of higher learning located in this state and are | 40 |
enrolled in
a program that is related to agricultural education. | 41 |
The board shall adopt rules governing all aspects of
the program, | 42 |
including any additional eligibility requirements,
the | 43 |
application process, scholarship amounts, and any requirements
a | 44 |
student must meet in order to retain a scholarship. | 45 |
Sec. 4503.503. (A) The owner or lessee of any passenger car, | 49 |
noncommercial motor vehicle, recreational vehicle, or other | 50 |
vehicle of a class approved by the registrar of motor vehicles may | 51 |
apply to the registrar for the registration of the vehicle and | 52 |
issuance of "Ohio agriculture" license plates. The application for | 53 |
"Ohio agriculture" license plates may be combined with a request | 54 |
for a special reserved license plate under section 4503.40 or | 55 |
4503.42 of the Revised Code. Upon receipt of the completed | 56 |
application and compliance with division (B) of this section, the | 57 |
registrar shall issue to the applicant the appropriate vehicle | 58 |
registration and a set of "Ohio agriculture" license plates with a | 59 |
validation sticker or a validation sticker alone when required by | 60 |
section 4503.191 of the Revised Code. | 61 |
In addition to the letters and numbers ordinarily inscribed | 62 |
thereon, "Ohio agriculture" license plates shall be inscribed with | 63 |
words and markings selected and designed by the Ohio farm bureau | 64 |
federation, in consultation with representatives of agricultural | 65 |
commodity organizations of this state. The registrar shall approve | 66 |
the final design. "Ohio agriculture" license plates shall bear | 67 |
county identification stickers that identify the county of | 68 |
registration by name or number. | 69 |
(B) "Ohio agriculture" license plates and validation stickers | 70 |
shall be issued upon payment of the regular license tax as | 71 |
prescribed under section 4503.04 of the Revised Code, any | 72 |
applicable motor vehicle tax levied under Chapter 4504. of the | 73 |
Revised Code, any applicable fee prescribed by section 4503.40 or | 74 |
4503.42 of the Revised Code, a bureau of motor vehicles | 75 |
administrative fee of ten dollars, the contribution specified | 76 |
under division (C) of this section, and compliance with all other | 77 |
applicable laws relating to the registration of motor vehicles. | 78 |
(B)(1) If, during any calendar year commencing with 1998, the | 116 |
total number of motor vehicle registrations involving a particular | 117 |
type of
nonstandard license plate other than a nonstandard | 118 |
educational license plate is less than one thousand, including | 119 |
both new
registrations and registration renewals, the registrar of | 120 |
motor vehicles, on
or after the first day of January, but not | 121 |
later than the fifteenth day of
January of the following year, | 122 |
shall send a
written notice to the sponsor of that type of | 123 |
nonstandard license plate, if a
sponsor exists, informing the | 124 |
sponsor of this fact. The registrar also shall
inform the sponsor | 125 |
that if, during the calendar year in which the written
notice is | 126 |
sent, the total number of motor vehicle registrations involving | 127 |
the
sponsor's nonstandard license plate again is less than one | 128 |
thousand, the
program involving that type of nonstandard license | 129 |
plate will be terminated on
the thirty-first day of December of | 130 |
the calendar year in which the
written notice is sent and, except | 131 |
as provided in division
(C) of this section, no motor vehicle | 132 |
registration application involving either the actual issuance of | 133 |
that type of
nonstandard
license plate or the registration renewal | 134 |
of a motor vehicle displaying that
type of nonstandard license | 135 |
plate will be accepted by the registrar or a deputy registrar | 136 |
beginning the
first day of January of the next calendar year. The | 137 |
registrar also shall inform the sponsor that if the program | 138 |
involving the
sponsor's nonstandard license plate is terminated | 139 |
under this section, it may
be reestablished pursuant to division | 140 |
(D) of this section. | 141 |
(2) If, during any calendar year commencing with 1998, the | 142 |
total number
of motor vehicle registrations involving a particular | 143 |
type of nonstandard
license plate is less than one thousand, | 144 |
including both new registrations and
registration renewals, and no | 145 |
sponsor exists for that license plate, the
registrar shall issue a | 146 |
public notice on or after the first day of
January, but not later | 147 |
than the fifteenth day of
January of the following year, stating | 148 |
that
fact. The notice also shall inform the public that if, during | 149 |
the calendar
year in which the registrar issues the public notice, | 150 |
the total number of
motor vehicle registrations for that type of | 151 |
nonstandard license plate,
including both new registrations and | 152 |
registration renewals, again is less than
one thousand, the | 153 |
program involving that type of nonstandard license plate
will be | 154 |
terminated on the thirty-first day of December of the calendar | 155 |
year in
which the registrar issues the public notice and, except | 156 |
as provided in
division (C) of this section, no motor vehicle | 157 |
registration application
involving either the actual issuance of | 158 |
that type of nonstandard license plate
or the registration renewal | 159 |
of a motor vehicle displaying that type of
nonstandard license | 160 |
plate will be accepted by the registrar or a deputy
registrar | 161 |
beginning on the first day of January of the next calendar year. | 162 |
(3) If, during any calendar year commencing with 2008, the | 163 |
total number of motor vehicle registrations involving a | 164 |
nonstandard educational license plate is less than five hundred, | 165 |
including both new registrations and registration renewals, the | 166 |
registrar, on or after the first day of January, but not later | 167 |
than the fifteenth day of January of the following year, shall | 168 |
send a written notice to the sponsor of that type of nonstandard | 169 |
license educational plate informing the sponsor of this fact. The | 170 |
registrar also shall inform the sponsor that if, during the | 171 |
calendar year in which the written notice is sent, the total | 172 |
number of motor vehicle registrations involving the sponsor's | 173 |
nonstandard educational license plate again is less than five | 174 |
hundred, the program involving that type of nonstandard | 175 |
educational license plate will be terminated on the thirty-first | 176 |
day of December of the calendar year in which the written notice | 177 |
is sent and, except as provided in division (C) of this section, | 178 |
no motor vehicle registration application involving either the | 179 |
actual issuance of that type of nonstandard educational license | 180 |
plate or the registration renewal of a motor vehicle displaying | 181 |
that type of nonstandard educational license plate will be | 182 |
accepted by the registrar or a deputy registrar beginning the | 183 |
first day of January of the next calendar year. The registrar also | 184 |
shall inform the sponsor that if the program involving the | 185 |
sponsor's nonstandard educational license plate is terminated | 186 |
under this section, it may be reestablished pursuant to division | 187 |
(D) of this section. | 188 |
(C) If the program involving a type of
nonstandard license | 189 |
plate is terminated under division
(B) of this section, the | 190 |
registration of any
motor vehicle displaying that type of | 191 |
nonstandard license plate at the time of
termination may be | 192 |
renewed so long as the nonstandard license plates remain | 193 |
serviceable. If the nonstandard license plates of such a motor | 194 |
vehicle become
unfit for service, the owner of the motor vehicle | 195 |
may apply for the issuance
of nonstandard license plates of that | 196 |
same type, but the registrar or deputy
registrar shall issue such | 197 |
nonstandard license plates only if at the time of
application the | 198 |
stock of the bureau contains license plates of that type of | 199 |
nonstandard license plate. If, at the time of such application, | 200 |
the stock of
the bureau does not contain license plates of that | 201 |
type of nonstandard license
plate, the registrar or deputy | 202 |
registrar shall inform the owner of that fact,
and the application | 203 |
shall be refused. | 204 |
If the program involving a type of nonstandard license plate | 205 |
is
terminated under division (B) of this section
and the | 206 |
registration of motor vehicles displaying such license plates | 207 |
continues
as permitted by this division, the registrar, for as | 208 |
long as such
registrations
continue to be issued, shall continue | 209 |
to collect and distribute any
contribution that was required to be | 210 |
collected and distributed prior to the
termination of that | 211 |
program. | 212 |
Sec. 4503.78. (A) Except as may otherwise be specifically | 219 |
provided by law, after the effective date of this section, the | 220 |
registrar of
motor vehicles shall not be required to implement any | 221 |
legislation that creates
a license plate and provides for its | 222 |
issuance until the registrar receives
written statements from not | 223 |
less than one thousand persons, indicating that
they intend to | 224 |
apply for and obtain such license plates for their motor
vehicles. | 225 |
The registrar may require such statements to be made on a form the | 226 |
registrar provides. | 227 |
(B) If a program involving a nonstandard license plate is | 228 |
terminated under
division (B)(1) or (3) of section 4503.77 of the | 229 |
Revised Code,
the sponsor of that license plate may apply to the | 230 |
registrar for the
reestablishment of that program, as permitted by | 231 |
division
(D) of that section. The registrar shall not
reestablish | 232 |
the program involving that nonstandard license plate until the | 233 |
registrar receives written statements from not less than one | 234 |
thousand persons,
indicating that they intend to apply for and | 235 |
obtain such license
plates for their motor vehicles. The registrar | 236 |
may require such statements to
be made on a form approved by the | 237 |
registrar. | 238 |