SB0272 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB0272

Introduced 2/7/2007, by Sen. Christine Radogno

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

625 ILCS 5/3-600

from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-600

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State shall not issue a series of special plates unless applications have been received for 3,333 (rather than 10,000) plates of that series. Deletes language providing that the Secretary may prescribe a different number of required applications. Effective immediately.

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A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning transportation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing Section 3-600 as follows:

(625 ILCS 5/3-600) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-600)

Sec. 3-600. Requirements for issuance of special plates.

(a) The Secretary of State shall not issue a series of special plates unless applications, as prescribed by the Secretary, have been received for 3,333 10,000 plates of that series; except that the Secretary of State may prescribe some other required number of applications if that number is sufficient to pay for the total cost of designing, manufacturing and issuing the special license plate.

(b) The Secretary of State, upon issuing a new series of special license plates, shall notify all law enforcement officials of the design, color and other special features of the special license plate series.

(c) This Section shall not apply to special license plate categories in existence on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1990, or to the Secretary of State's discretion as established in Section 3-611.

(Source: P.A. 86-1207.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.