2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 47 — Revenue and taxation
RS 47:463.2 — Special personalized prestige license plates for passenger vehicles

§463.2. Special personalized prestige license plates for passenger vehicles

A. The commissioner shall establish and issue special personalized prestige license plates. The commissioner shall establish and promulgate rules and regulations for the procedures for application for and issuance of such special license plates and shall fix a date each year by which applications shall be made. The commissioner shall not issue a letter combination which might carry a connotation offensive to good taste and decency. A fee of two hundred fifty dollars a year shall be paid for each plate with a single letter, which shall be in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration license fee. A fee of twenty-five dollars a year shall be paid for each plate with more than one single letter, which shall be in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration license fee. Motor vehicle dealers may handle and transmit applications for special personalized prestige license plates in the same manner that motor vehicle dealers handle and transmit applications for regular license plates.

B. Any owner of a private passenger vehicle or a commercial passenger vehicle regulated under the provisions of R.S. 47:466 may apply for the issuance of such plates to him, to be used in lieu of the regular motor vehicle registration license plates. No two owners shall be issued identical special personalized plates. Each owner shall make a new application and pay the fee for the special plates each time he desires to have such special plates issued to him. Once the owner obtains special plates, he shall have priority on these plates for each of the following years that he makes timely and appropriate application.

C. The commissioner shall provide by rules and regulations for the transfer of the special plates in the event the licensee replaces the automobile. The commissioner shall also provide by rules and regulations for the disposition of the special plates in the event of the sale, gift or other disposition of the vehicle by the owner before the expiration of the special plates, where the owner does not wish to transfer the plates to a new automobile.

D. The first twenty per centum of the proceeds of all fees collected for special license plates, not to exceed forty thousand dollars, realized from the fees collected for such plates shall be retained by the commissioner to defray the expense of manufacture and sale of such special license plates. Subject to the provisions of R.S. 47:480, the second ten per centum thereof to the Department of Corrections, and the remainder of the proceeds of the fees collected for such special license plates shall be paid to the state treasurer on or before the tenth day of each month following their collection and shall be credited to the state general fund.

Added by Acts 1973, No. 146, §1. Amended by Acts 1980, No. 282, §1; Acts 1987, No. 89, §1; Acts 1989, No. 728, §1; Acts 1991, No. 547, §1, eff. July 15, 1991; Acts 1997, No. 218, §1; Acts 2003, No. 291, §1.