Tribal license plates.

2016
STATE OF WYOMING
16LSO-0258
ENGROSSED
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HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0009

Tribal license plates.

Sponsored by:
Select Committee on Tribal Relations

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle license plates; authorizing special Eastern Shoshone Indian tribe license plates and Northern Arapaho Indian tribe license plates; specifying requirements; authorizing a fee; providing for termination of the issuance of the special plates as specified; requiring a report upon termination; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 31
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230 is created to read:

31
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230
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Tribal license plates.

(a)

Any person required to register a vehicle
in Wyoming
pursuant to this article may apply for distinctive
Eastern Shoshone Indian tribe license plates for any motor vehicle owned or leased by the applicant that is not a commercial vehicle or multipurpose vehicle upon registration of the vehicle. The department, in consultation with the business council of the Eastern Shoshone Indian tribe, shall prescribe the design of the Eastern Shoshone license plate, which shall include an image of the bucking horse and rider, as described in W.S. 8
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117, and need not include Arabic numerals for the county. The design of the plate shall comply with any applicable federal or state law.

(b)

Any person required to register a vehicle
in Wyoming
pursuant to this article may apply for distinctive Northern Arapaho Indian tribe license plates for any motor vehicle owned or leased by the applicant that is not a commercial vehicle or multipurpose vehicle upon registration of the vehicle. The department, in consultation with the business council of the Northern Arapaho Indian tribe, shall prescribe the design of the Northern Arapaho license plate, which shall include an image of the bucking horse and rider, as described in W.S. 8
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3
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117, and need not include Arabic numerals for the
county. The design of the plate shall comply with any applicable federal or state law.

(c)

The department shall arrange for production of the license plates authorized by this section. The license plates shall be issued by the county treasurer of each county.

(
d
)

Upon payment by the applicant of a fee of seventy dollars ($70.00) established and assessed by the University of Wyoming, the university shall issue a written statement of eligibility for license plates under this section.

Any fees collected under this subsection shall be payable to the University of Wyoming, shall be deposited in equal amounts to the Chief Washakie memorial endowment fund and the Northern Arapaho endowment fund and are continuously appropriated for the purpose of funding scholarships for students at the University of Wyoming.

(e)

Application shall be made at least thirty (30) days before registration of the vehicle expires.

Except as provided in this section, application for, issuance and renewal of license plates under this section shall be
subject to the same requirements and fees as provided in this article.

The fee required under W.S. 31
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102(
a)(viii) shall accompany each application.".

(f
)

License plates issued under this section shall be displayed only upon the vehicle for which they are issued.

(g
)

The department may prepare any special forms
and issue
any rules and regulations necessary to carry out this section.

(h
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Unless
one thousand
(
1,0
00) sets of license plates are issued under this section before December 31, 202
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, the plates authorized under this section shall be eliminated from production and the department shall report the cessation of production to the legislature not later than January 15, 202
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Section
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This act is effective January 1, 2017
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(END)

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