2021 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 56 - Motor Vehicles
Chapter 3 - Motor Vehicle Registration And Licensing
Section 56-3-14410. Legion of Merit special license plates.

Section effective until May 6, 2022.

(A) The department may issue a "Legion of Merit" special motor vehicle license plate for use on a private passenger motor vehicle or motorcycle registered in this State in a person's name who is a recipient of the Legion of Merit award. An application for this special motor vehicle license plate must include official documentation showing that the applicant is a recipient of the Legion of Merit award.

(B) The requirements for production and distribution of the plate are those set forth in Section 56-3-8100. The department shall imprint on the special license plates "Legion of Merit" and the corresponding Legion of Merit medal.

(C) A license plate issued pursuant to this article may be transferred to another vehicle of the same weight class owned by the same person upon application being made and approved by the department. It is unlawful for a person to whom the plate has been issued to knowingly permit it to be displayed on any vehicle except the one authorized by the department.

(D) The provisions of this article do not affect the registration and licensing of motor vehicles as required by other provisions of this chapter but are cumulative to those other provisions. A person violating the provisions of this article or a person who (1) fraudulently gives false or fictitious information in any application for a special license plate, as authorized in this article, (2) conceals a material fact, or (3) otherwise commits fraud in the application or in the use of a special license plate issued is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both.

HISTORY: 2017 Act No. 65 (H.3256), Section 3, eff May 19, 2017.

Code Commissioner's Note

At the direction of the Code Commissioner, Section 56-3-14110, as added by 2017 Act No. 65, Section 3, was redesignated as Section 56-3-14410 to accommodate the addition of Section 56-3-14110 added by 2017 Act No. 5, Section 1.

Editor's Note

2021 Act No. 38, Sections 2, 3, provide as follows:

"SECTION 2. Articles 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 33, 38, 43, 53, 55, 56, 63, 68, 74, 84, 88, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 107, 110, 111, 112, 115, 116, 117, 129, 131, 132, 143, and 144, Chapter 3, Title 56 are repealed.

"SECTION 3. This act takes effect one year after approval by the Governor."