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HB 201/HTCS |
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Retired Firefighters Special License Plate |
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ANALYST: |
Hayes |
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REVENUE
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Estimated Revenue |
Subsequent Years Impact |
Recurring or
Non-Rec |
Fund Affected |
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FY03 |
FY04 |
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$0.1 |
$0.1 |
Recurring |
Motor
Vehicle Division, GF: $10 per plate |
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$0.1 |
$0.1 |
Recurring |
State
Road Fund: $9.98 per plate |
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$0.1 |
$0.1 |
Recurring |
*Local
Govts: $5.02
per plate |
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Revenue Decreases) $0.1
= Revenue amount unknown
*Local
Government funds include distributions to various county general funds and
roads funds, municipal road uses, and county and municipal general funds.
Relates to various House and Senate bills
requesting special license plates.
Responses
Received From
Taxation
and Revenue Department
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
1.
Section 1. The House Transportation Committee Substitute
for House Bill 201 creates a new section of the Motor Vehicle Code, Section
66-3-424 NMSA 1978 which outlines provisions for enacting a description of and
requirements for a standardized special registration license plate.
2.
Section 2. The bill also provides for a standardized
special registration plate with a logo for retired firefighters. The TRD secretary will approve the final logo
design for the special registration plate for retired
3.
Section 3. Except for Section 1 of this legislation, the
effective date of the provisions of this act is
Significant
Issues
During the 2003 session, approximately 20
license plate bills have been introduced, all requesting MVD to produce a
specialty plate for their group or organization. While all such requests are worthy of
consideration, the Motor Vehicle Division has neither the staff nor the funding
to manufacture all of these specialty license plates. Recognizing this problem, the House Transportation
Committee inserts a new section of the Motor Vehicle Code:
66-3-424. [NEW
MATERIAL] STANDARDIZED
SPECIAL REGISTRATION PLATES WITH LOGOS.--
A.
Standardized
special registration plates with logos may be authorized by statute to show
state support for worthy public purposes.
The authorizing statute shall provide for collection of fees that, at a
minimum, will cover the costs to the division of development, manufacture and
issuance of the special registration plates and logos.
B.
Standardized
special registration plates, on the standardized areas, shall:
(1)
display
the colors of the state flag, red lettering on a yellow background;
(2)
display
the phrases “
(3)
provide
a space for applying the special registration logo, centered at the left edge
of the plate, between the attachment holes, beginning one-fourth inch in from
the edge of the plate and having the following dimension: four and one-eighth inches in height and
three and one-eighth inches in width; and
(4)
provide
a vehicle registration number, to be assigned by the division, that consists of
five alphanumeric characters displayed to the right of the special logo area.
C.
Special
registration logos, except for the standard dimension specified in Paragraph
(3) of Subsection B of this section, shall be left to the design discretion of
the division, in consultation with the public purpose interest group that
requests the special registration plate.
D.
Standardized
special registration plates with logos, when authorized by statute for a
particular public purpose interest group, shall meet the requirements specified
in this subsection prior to plate issuance by the division. The public purpose interest group, no later
than the effective date of the authorizing statute:
(1)
shall
provide evidence acceptable to the division that it will generate a minimum
number of prepaid applications as determined by the division for the special
registration plate with logo;
(2)
shall
provide a prepayment to the division in an amount sufficient to cover the plate
and logo cost of the initial order;
(3)
shall
provide a sample of the requested artwork design in a format specified by the
plate manufacturer for the specialized logo; and
(4)
in
cases where the authorizing statute includes revenue-sharing with distribution
directed to a particular group or fund, shall show that the recipient is a
governmental entity of a fund authorized for the use of a governmental entity.
E.
The
division may promulgate rules for implementation of the provisions of this section.
66-3-424.1. [NEW MATERIAL] STANDARDIZED
SPECIAL REGISTRATION PLATE FOR RETIRED FIREFIGHERS.--
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Retired
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Anyone who misrepresents himself as a
retired firefighter officer is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be sentenced
pursuant to Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978.
In summary, one standard license plate will be
designed pursuant to the provisions highlighted above, and will have a 3 x 4
inch rectangular space in the middle onto which a retired firefighter logo or
any other specialized logo can be placed.
The group wanting the specialty logo must prepay and guarantee a minimum
order. The result will be that more
specialty logos can be ordered and produced without adversely affecting MVD’s budget.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The fee for the specialty
plate logo is $25, which will be in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration
fee. Of that amount, $10 will be
retained by MVD to defray the cost of producing and issuing special
registration plate with logo. The
remaining $25 shall be deposited to the motor vehicle suspense fund for
distribution pursuant to Section 66-6-23 NMSA 1978.
TECHNICAL
The new section
outlining provisions for a standardized special registration plate for retired firefighters,
Section 66-3-424.1, has the same numbering sequence as the new
section in HTCS602 authorizing issuance of a standardized special plate for
retired members of the National Guard (Section 66-3-424.1) and as
the new section in HTCS464 for retired New Mexico State Police officers
(Section 66-3-424.1).
RELATIONSHIP
Other special
“prestige” license plates have been proposed during the 2003 session:
HB 75, Armed Forces Retirees Special License
HB 201, Special Plates
for Retired Firefighters (duplicate of SB 496)
HB 378, Special Plates
for Retired NM Letter Carriers
HB 379, Special Plates
for Letter Carriers
HB 520, Special Plates
for National Guard Members
HB 566, Special Plates
for Supporting Spayed Pets
HB 602, Special Plates
for Retired NM National Guard (duplicate of SB 622)
HB 635, Special Plates
for NM Fraternal Order of Police
HB 656, Special Plates
for Wildlife Artwork
HB 704, License Plates
for Civil Air Patrol,
HB 760, Special
Commemorative Route 66 License Plate (duplicate of SB 770)
SB 197, License Plate for
Active Duty Servicemen
SB 210, License Plates for
SB 211, License Plates for
NM Mail Carriers
SB 493, Special Plates for
NM HS Rodeo Association
SB 496, Special Plates for
Retired Firefighters (duplicate of HB 201)
SB 549, Special Plates for
Search and Rescue Members
SB 622, Special Plates for
Retired NM National Guard (duplicate of HB 602)
SB 693, License Plates for
Disabled Veterans
SB 770, Special
Commemorative Route 66 License Plate (duplicate of HB 760)
CMH/yr