Bill Text: MI SB0374 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Vehicles; registration plates; requirement for secretary of state to use digital printing method on registration plates; provide for. Amends sec. 224 of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.224).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-12-12 - Referred To Second Reading [SB0374 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0374-Engrossed.html

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SB-0374, As Passed Senate, December 5, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBSTITUTE FOR

 

SENATE BILL NO. 374

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

 

"Michigan vehicle code,"

 

by amending section 224 (MCL 257.224), as amended by 2018 PA 342.

 

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 does

 

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 expires 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. No later than 1 year after the effective

 

date of the amendatory act that amended this section, the

 

department shall use a digital printing method to create all

 

standard design registration plates. As used in this subsection,

 

"digital printing method" means a method of creating a registration

 

plate using a retroflective sheeting material that is printed

 

utilizing UV-curable ink-jet technology to achieve the highest

 

quality and speed of printing.

 

     (6) No later than 1 year after the effective date of the

 

amendatory act that amended this section, the department shall

permit the registrant of a vehicle to display a digital

 

registration plate in lieu of the standard design registration

 

plate described in subsection (5). As used in this subsection

 

"digital registration plate" means an electronic display that is

 

mounted on the rear of a vehicle in place of a registration plate

 

issued by the secretary of state.

 

     (7) (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.

 

     (8) (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.

 

     (9) (8) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, 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.

 

This subsection does not apply to a special registration plate

 

issued for a vehicle in a fleet under section 801h.

 

     (10) (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).

 

     (11) (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.

 

     (12) (11) Beginning on January 1, 2015, the secretary of state

 

shall not renew 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.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.