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| 1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 3-600 as follows:
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| 6 | (625 ILCS 5/3-600) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-600)
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| 7 | Sec. 3-600. Requirements for issuance of special plates.
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| 8 | (a) The
The Secretary of State shall issue only special | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | plates that have been authorized by the General Assembly. The | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Secretary of State shall not issue a series of special plates
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| 11 | unless applications, as prescribed by the Secretary, have been | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | received for
10,000 plates of that series; except that the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Secretary of State may
prescribe some other required number of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | applications if that number is
sufficient to pay for the total | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | cost of designing, manufacturing and
issuing the special | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | license plate. Where a special plate is authorized by law to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | raise funds for a specific civic group, charitable entity, or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | other identified organization, and where the Secretary of State | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | has not received the required number of applications to issue | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | that special plate within 2 years of the effective date of the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | Public Act authorizing the special plate, the Secretary of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | State's authority to issue the special plate is nullified. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | (b) The Secretary of State, upon issuing a new series of | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | special license
plates, shall notify all law enforcement | ||||||
| 2 | officials of the design, color and
other special features of | ||||||
| 3 | the special license plate series.
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| 4 | (c) This Section shall not apply to the
Secretary of | ||||||
| 5 | State's discretion as established in Section 3-611.
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| 6 | (d) If a law authorizing a special license plate provides | ||||||
| 7 | that the sponsoring organization is to designate a charitable | ||||||
| 8 | entity as the recipient of the funds from the sale of that | ||||||
| 9 | license plate, the designated charitable entity must be in | ||||||
| 10 | compliance with the registration and reporting requirements of | ||||||
| 11 | the Charitable Trust Act and the Solicitation for Charity Act. | ||||||
| 12 | In addition, the charitable entity must annually provide the | ||||||
| 13 | Secretary of State's office a letter of compliance issued by | ||||||
| 14 | the Illinois Attorney General's office verifying the entity is | ||||||
| 15 | in compliance with the Acts. | ||||||
| 16 | In the case of a law in effect before the effective date of | ||||||
| 17 | this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, the name of | ||||||
| 18 | the charitable entity which is to receive the funds shall be | ||||||
| 19 | provided to the Secretary of State within one year after the | ||||||
| 20 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General | ||||||
| 21 | Assembly. In the case of a law that takes effect on or after | ||||||
| 22 | the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General | ||||||
| 23 | Assembly, the name of the charitable entity which is to receive | ||||||
| 24 | the funds shall be provided to the Secretary of State within | ||||||
| 25 | one year after the law takes effect. If the organization fails | ||||||
| 26 | to designate an appropriate charitable entity within the | ||||||
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| 1 | one-year period, or if the designated charitable entity fails | ||||||
| 2 | to annually provide the Secretary of State a letter of | ||||||
| 3 | compliance issued by the Illinois Attorney General's office, | ||||||
| 4 | any funds collected from the sale of plates authorized for that | ||||||
| 5 | organization and not previously disbursed shall be transferred | ||||||
| 6 | to the General Revenue Fund, and the special plates shall be | ||||||
| 7 | discontinued. | ||||||
| 8 | (e) If fewer than 1,000 sets of any special license plate | ||||||
| 9 | authorized by law and issued by the Secretary of State are | ||||||
| 10 | actively registered for 2 consecutive calendar years, the | ||||||
| 11 | Secretary of State may discontinue the issuance of that special | ||||||
| 12 | license plate. | ||||||
| 13 | (f) Where special license plates have been discontinued | ||||||
| 14 | pursuant to subsection (d) or (e) of this Section, all | ||||||
| 15 | previously issued plates of that type shall be recalled. Owners | ||||||
| 16 | of vehicles which were registered with recalled plates shall | ||||||
| 17 | not be charged a reclassification or registration sticker | ||||||
| 18 | replacement plate fee upon the issuance of new plates for those | ||||||
| 19 | vehicles. | ||||||
| 20 | (Source: P.A. 97-409, eff. 1-1-12.)
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