Yellowstone license plates.

2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0190
Introduced
1.3

HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0066

Yellowstone license plates.

Sponsored by:
Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle license plates; authorizing distinctive Yellowstone National Park license plates; specifying requirements; authorizing a fee; creating an account; providing for termination of the issuance of the distinctive plates as specified; requiring a report upon termination; and providing for effective dates.

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

Section 1
.

W.S. 31
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2
‑
230 is created to read:

31
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2
‑
230
.

Yellowstone
National Park
license plates.

(a)

Any person required to register a vehicle in Wyoming pursuant to this article may apply
to the department for a statement of eligibility for
distinctive
Yellowstone National Park
license plates for any motor vehicle that is not a commercial vehicle or multipurpose vehicle owned or leased by that person upon registration of the vehicle.
Upo
n payment by the applicant of
a fee of

one hundred
twenty dollars ($120.00) established and assessed by the department, the department shall issue a written statement of eligibility for
Yellowstone National Park license plates
.
The fee authorized under this
sub
section may be increased annually up to the percentage increase as shown by the Wyoming cost
‑
of
‑
living index as determined by the division of economic analysis of the department of administration and information.

(b)

The statement of eligibility application fee collected under subsection (a) of this section shall be payable to the department and shall be accounted for separately. Fifty dollars ($50.00) of each fee collected shall be distributed to the Wyoming wildlife and natural
resource trust account
created by W.S. 9
‑
15
‑
103(
a). The remainder of each fee collected shall be distributed to the
conservation and tourism impact account within the state highway fund
,
which is hereby created. Funds in the conservation and tourism impact account shall only be used to provide for the establishment and maintenance of safety rest areas and to defray costs incurred
by
the impact of conservation and tourism upon public roads or highways.

(
c
)

Application for issuance and renewal of license plates under this section shall be made directly to the county treasurer at least thirty (30) days before registration of the vehicle expires. Application forms shall be available at all county treasurer's offices. The fee required under W.S. 31
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3
‑
102(
a)(viii) shall accompany each application.
The license plates
under this section
shall be issued by the county treasurer of each county
and shall
be displayed only upon the vehicle for which they are issued.

(
d
)

The department shall prescribe the design of the
Yellowstone National Park license plates
authorized by this section
in consultation with the United States national park service
, which
shall include an image of the bucking horse and rider as described in W.S. 8
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3
‑
117. License
plates authorized by this section need
not include
a
rabic
numerals
designating the county
.
The department

shall arrange for production of the license plates.

Following initial approval,
Yellowstone National Park
license plates

shall be subject to redesign on the same schedule as all license pla
tes beginning with the year 2025
reissuance.

(
e
)

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

(
f
)

Unless
one thousand (1
,
0
00) sets of license plates are issued under this
section before December 31, 202
3
, 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
, 2025
.

Section
2
.

The department of transportation shall
prescribe the design of the Yellowstone National Park license plates
authorized by this act and
promulgate
any
rules necessary to implement th
is act on or before January 1, 2018
.

Section 3
.

(a)

Except as prov
ided in subsection (b) of this
section, this act is
effective January 1, 2018
.

(b)

Section 2 of this act
is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

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