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Sub. H. B. No. 293 As Reported by the House Infrastructure, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs CommitteeAs Reported by the House Infrastructure, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs Committee
127th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2007-2008 |
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Cosponsors:
Representatives McGregor, J., Wachtmann, Yuko, Evans, Reinhard, Latta, Huffman, Peterson, Chandler, Dodd, Seitz, Stebelton, Fende, Sayre, Hughes, Aslanides, Combs, Domenick, Otterman
A BILL
To amend sections 4503.77 and 4503.78 and to enact
sections 901.90 and 4503.503 of the Revised
Code
to create "Ohio Agriculture" license plates
and
to create the Ohio Agriculture License Plate
Scholarship Program, and to
establish a threshold
of 500 annual special license plate
registrations
for those license plates whose contributions are
required to be used for educational or scholarship
purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 4503.77 and 4503.78 be amended and
sections 901.90 and 4503.503 of the Revised
Code be enacted to
read as follows:
Sec. 901.90. (A) There is hereby created in the state
treasury the Ohio agriculture license plate scholarship fund
consisting of the contributions the registrar of motor vehicles
receives pursuant to section 4503.503 of the Revised Code. Money
shall be expended from the fund only as provided in division (C)
of this section.
(B)(1) There is hereby created the Ohio agriculture license
plate scholarship fund board, consisting of the director of
agriculture or the director's designee and one representative
appointed by each of the following organizations:
(a) The Ohio agriculture council;
(b) The Ohio corngrowers association;
(c) The Ohio farm bureau federation;
(d) The Ohio soy association;
(e) The Ohio state university college of food, agricultural,
and environmental sciences;
(f) The Ohio young farmers association.
(2) All original appointments to the board shall be made not
later than ninety days after the effective date of this section,
and all vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the
original appointment. Members of the board shall serve without
compensation but shall be reimbursed for the actual expenses they
incur in performing their duties. The director of agriculture or
the director's designee shall serve as chairperson. The board
shall adopt rules governing their meetings and proceedings.
(C) There is hereby established the Ohio agriculture license
plate scholarship program to benefit students who attend an
institution of higher learning located in this state and are
enrolled in
a program that is related to agricultural education.
The board shall adopt rules governing all aspects of
the program,
including any additional eligibility requirements,
the
application process, scholarship amounts, and any requirements
a
student must meet in order to retain a scholarship.
All decisions of the board relating to the scholarship
program, including the decision to award, renew, not renew, or
revoke a scholarship, are final.
Sec. 4503.503. (A) The owner or lessee of any passenger car,
noncommercial motor vehicle, recreational vehicle, or other
vehicle of a class approved by the registrar of motor vehicles may
apply to the registrar for the registration of the vehicle and
issuance of "Ohio agriculture" license plates. The application for
"Ohio agriculture" license plates may be combined with a request
for a special reserved license plate under section 4503.40 or
4503.42 of the Revised Code. Upon receipt of the completed
application and compliance with division (B) of this section, the
registrar shall issue to the applicant the appropriate vehicle
registration and a set of "Ohio agriculture" license plates with a
validation sticker or a validation sticker alone when required by
section 4503.191 of the Revised Code.
In addition to the letters and numbers ordinarily inscribed
thereon, "Ohio agriculture" license plates shall be inscribed with
words and markings selected and designed by the Ohio farm bureau
federation, in consultation with representatives of agricultural
commodity organizations of this state. The registrar shall approve
the final design. "Ohio agriculture" license plates shall bear
county identification stickers that identify the county of
registration by name or number.
(B) "Ohio agriculture" license plates and validation stickers
shall be issued upon payment of the regular license tax as
prescribed under section 4503.04 of the Revised Code, any
applicable motor vehicle tax levied under Chapter 4504. of the
Revised Code, any applicable fee prescribed by section 4503.40 or
4503.42 of the Revised Code, a bureau of motor vehicles
administrative fee of ten dollars, the contribution specified
under division (C) of this section, and compliance with all other
applicable laws relating to the registration of motor vehicles.
(C) For each application for registration and registration
renewal received under this section, the registrar shall collect a
contribution of twenty dollars. The registrar shall transmit this
contribution to the treasurer of state for deposit in the Ohio
agriculture license plate scholarship fund created in section
901.90 of the Revised Code.
(D) The registrar shall deposit the bureau administrative fee
of ten dollars specified in division (B) of this section, the
purpose of which is to compensate the bureau for the additional
services required in the issuing of the applicant's "Ohio
agriculture" license plates, into the state bureau of motor
vehicles fund created in section 4501.25 of the Revised Code.
(E) Sections 4503.77 and 4503.78 of the Revised Code apply to
"Ohio agriculture" license plates, except that the number "one
thousand" specified in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of section 4503.77
of the Revised Code and in divisions (A) and (B) of section
4503.78 of the Revised Code is reduced to "five hundred" in each
instance regarding "Ohio agriculture" license plates.
Sec. 4503.77. (A) As used in this section,
"nonstandard:
(1) "Nonstandard license plate" means all of the following:
(1)(a) A license plate issued under sections 4503.52,
4503.55, 4503.56,
4503.57, 4503.70, 4503.71, 4503.72, and
4503.75
of the Revised Code;
(2)(b) A license plate issued under a program that is
reestablished under
division (D) of this section and that meets
the requirements contained in
division (B) of section 4503.78 of
the Revised
Code;
(3)(c) Except as may otherwise be specifically provided by
law, any license
plate created after the effective date of this
section August 21, 1997.
(2) "Nonstandard educational license plate" means a
nonstandard license plate issued to a motor vehicle registrant
upon payment of a contribution that the registrar of motor
vehicles deposits into the license plate contribution fund created
in section 4501.21 of the Revised Code and that the sponsor of the
license plate is required by that section to use for educational
or scholarship purposes.
(B)(1) If, during any calendar year commencing with 1998, the
total number of motor vehicle registrations involving a particular
type of
nonstandard license plate other than a nonstandard
educational license plate is less than one thousand, including
both new
registrations and registration renewals, the registrar of
motor vehicles, on
or after the first day of January, but not
later than the fifteenth day of
January of the following year,
shall send a
written notice to the sponsor of that type of
nonstandard license plate, if a
sponsor exists, informing the
sponsor of this fact. The registrar also shall
inform the sponsor
that if, during the calendar year in which the written
notice is
sent, the total number of motor vehicle registrations involving
the
sponsor's nonstandard license plate again is less than one
thousand, the
program involving that type of nonstandard license
plate will be terminated on
the thirty-first day of December of
the calendar year in which the
written notice is sent and, except
as provided in division
(C) of this section, no motor vehicle
registration application involving either the actual issuance of
that type of
nonstandard
license plate or the registration renewal
of a motor vehicle displaying that
type of nonstandard license
plate will be accepted by the registrar or a deputy registrar
beginning the
first day of January of the next calendar year. The
registrar also shall inform the sponsor that if the program
involving the
sponsor's nonstandard license plate is terminated
under this section, it may
be reestablished pursuant to division
(D) of this section.
(2) If, during any calendar year commencing with 1998, the
total number
of motor vehicle registrations involving a particular
type of nonstandard
license plate is less than one thousand,
including both new registrations and
registration renewals, and no
sponsor exists for that license plate, the
registrar shall issue a
public notice on or after the first day of
January, but not later
than the fifteenth day of
January of the following year, stating
that
fact. The notice also shall inform the public that if, during
the calendar
year in which the registrar issues the public notice,
the total number of
motor vehicle registrations for that type of
nonstandard license plate,
including both new registrations and
registration renewals, again is less than
one thousand, the
program involving that type of nonstandard license plate
will be
terminated on the thirty-first day of December of the calendar
year in
which the registrar issues the public notice and, except
as provided in
division (C) of this section, no motor vehicle
registration application
involving either the actual issuance of
that type of nonstandard license plate
or the registration renewal
of a motor vehicle displaying that type of
nonstandard license
plate will be accepted by the registrar or a deputy
registrar
beginning on the first day of January of the next calendar year.
(3) If, during any calendar year commencing with 2008, the
total number of motor vehicle registrations involving a
nonstandard educational license plate is less than five hundred,
including both new registrations and registration renewals, the
registrar, on or after the first day of January, but not later
than the fifteenth day of January of the following year, shall
send a written notice to the sponsor of that type of nonstandard
license educational plate informing the sponsor of this fact. The
registrar also shall inform the sponsor that if, during the
calendar year in which the written notice is sent, the total
number of motor vehicle registrations involving the sponsor's
nonstandard educational license plate again is less than five
hundred, the program involving that type of nonstandard
educational license plate will be terminated on the thirty-first
day of December of the calendar year in which the written notice
is sent and, except as provided in division (C) of this section,
no motor vehicle registration application involving either the
actual issuance of that type of nonstandard educational license
plate or the registration renewal of a motor vehicle displaying
that type of nonstandard educational license plate will be
accepted by the registrar or a deputy registrar beginning the
first day of January of the next calendar year. The registrar also
shall inform the sponsor that if the program involving the
sponsor's nonstandard educational license plate is terminated
under this section, it may be reestablished pursuant to division
(D) of this section.
(C) If the program involving a type of
nonstandard license
plate is terminated under division
(B) of this section, the
registration of any
motor vehicle displaying that type of
nonstandard license plate at the time of
termination may be
renewed so long as the nonstandard license plates remain
serviceable. If the nonstandard license plates of such a motor
vehicle become
unfit for service, the owner of the motor vehicle
may apply for the issuance
of nonstandard license plates of that
same type, but the registrar or deputy
registrar shall issue such
nonstandard license plates only if at the time of
application the
stock of the bureau contains license plates of that type of
nonstandard license plate. If, at the time of such application,
the stock of
the bureau does not contain license plates of that
type of nonstandard license
plate, the registrar or deputy
registrar shall inform the owner of that fact,
and the application
shall be refused.
If the program involving a type of nonstandard license plate
is
terminated under division (B) of this section
and the
registration of motor vehicles displaying such license plates
continues
as permitted by this division, the registrar, for as
long as such
registrations
continue to be issued, shall continue
to collect and distribute any
contribution that was required to be
collected and distributed prior to the
termination of that
program.
(D) If the program involving a
nonstandard license plate is
terminated under division
(B)(1) or (3) of this section, the
sponsor of that
license plate may apply to the registrar for the
reestablishment of the
program. If the program involving that
nonstandard license plate is
reestablished, the reestablishment is
subject to division
(B) of section 4503.78 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4503.78. (A) Except as may otherwise be specifically
provided by law, after the effective date of this section, the
registrar of
motor vehicles shall not be required to implement any
legislation that creates
a license plate and provides for its
issuance until the registrar receives
written statements from not
less than one thousand persons, indicating that
they intend to
apply for and obtain such license plates for their motor
vehicles.
The registrar may require such statements to be made on a form the
registrar provides.
(B) If a program involving a nonstandard license plate is
terminated under
division (B)(1) or (3) of section 4503.77 of the
Revised Code,
the sponsor of that license plate may apply to the
registrar for the
reestablishment of that program, as permitted by
division
(D) of that section. The registrar shall not
reestablish
the program involving that nonstandard license plate until the
registrar receives written statements from not less than one
thousand persons,
indicating that they intend to apply for and
obtain such license
plates for their motor vehicles. The registrar
may require such statements to
be made on a form approved by the
registrar.
In determining whether one thousand persons have so indicated
their
intentions, the registrar shall include in the total the
number of motor
vehicles that continue to display the nonstandard
license plate of the
terminated program, as permitted by division
(C) of section 4503.77 of the
Revised Code.
Section 2. That existing sections 4503.77 and 4503.78 of the
Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3. Notwithstanding division (B)(1) of section
4503.77 of the Revised Code, the Registrar of Motor Vehicles shall
not send the notice otherwise required by that section or
terminate a program involving a nonstandard educational license
plate unless the total number of motor vehicle registrations
involving the nonstandard educational license plate during
calendar year 2007 is less than five hundred.
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