Session of 1999
         
HOUSE BILL No. 2279
         
By Committee on Transportation
         
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  9             AN  ACT concerning motor vehicles; providing for the issuance of chil-
10             dren's trust fund license plates; amending K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 8-1,141
11             and repealing the existing section.
12      
13       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
14             New Section  1. (a) Any owner of one or more passenger vehicles or
15       trucks registered for a gross weight of not more than 20,000 pounds who
16       is a resident of Kansas, upon compliance with the provisions of this sec-
17       tion, may be issued one children's trust fund license plate for each such
18       passenger vehicle or truck. Such license plates shall be issued for the
19       same time as other license plates upon proper registration and payment
20       of the regular license fee as provided in K.S.A. 8-143, and amendments
21       thereto, and the presentation of the annual logo use authorization state-
22       ment provided for in subsection (b).
23             (b) The advisory committee on children and families established in
24       K.S.A. 38-1901, and amendments thereto, may authorize the use of their
25       logo to be affixed on license plates as provided by this section. Any royalty
26       payment to such committee derived from this section shall be credited
27       to the family and children trust account of the family and children in-
28       vestment fund, established in K.S.A. 38-1808, and amendments thereto,
29       and, shall be used in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2) of
30       subsection (c) of K.S.A. 38-1808, and amendments thereto. Any motor
31       vehicle owner may annually apply to the committee for the use of such
32       logo. Upon annual application and payment to the committee in an
33       amount of not less than $25 nor more than $100 as a logo use royalty
34       payment for each children's trust fund plate to be issued, the committee
35       shall issue to the motor vehicle owner, without further charge, a logo use
36       authorization statement, which shall be presented by the motor vehicle
37       owner at the time of registration.
38             (c) Any applicant for a children's trust fund license plate may make
39       application for such plates not less than 60 days prior to such person's
40       renewal of registration date, on a form prescribed and furnished by the
41       director of motor vehicles, and any applicant for the children's trust fund
42       license plates shall provide the annual logo use authorization statement
43       provided for in subsection (b). Application for registration of a passenger
44       or truck and issuance of the license plate under this section shall be made
45       by the owner in a manner prescribed by the director of vehicles upon
46       forms furnished by the director.
47             (d) No registration or children's trust fund license plate issued under
48       this section shall be transferable to any other person.
49             (e) Renewals of registration under this section shall be made an-
50       nually, upon payment of the fee prescribed in subsection (a), in the man-
51       ner prescribed in subsection (b) of K.S.A. 8-132, and amendments
52       thereto. No renewal of registration shall be made to any applicant until
53       such applicant provides the annual logo use authorization statement pro-
54       vided for in subsection (b). If such logo use authorization statement is
55       not presented at the time of registration, the applicant shall be required
56       to comply with K.S.A. 8-143, and amendments thereto, and return the
57       children's trust fund license plate to the county treasurer of such person's
58       residence.
59             (f) The advisory committee on children and families shall:
60             (1) Pay the initial cost of silk-screening for such children's trust fund
61       license plates; and
62             (2) provide to all county treasurers a toll-free telephone number
63       where applicants can call the children's trust fund for information con-
64       cerning the application process or the status of their license plate
65       application.
66             (g) The advisory committee on children and families, with the ap-
67       proval of the director of vehicles and subject to the availability of materials
68       and equipment, shall design a plate to be issued under the provisions of
69       this section.
70             Sec.  2. K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 8-1,141 is hereby amended to read as fol-
71       lows: 8-1,141. (a) Any new distinctive license plate authorized for issuance
72       on and after July 1, 1994, shall be subject to the personalized license plate
73       fee prescribed by subsection (c) of K.S.A. 8-132, and amendments
74       thereto. This section shall not apply to any distinctive license plate au-
75       thorized prior to July 1, 1994.
76             (b) The director of vehicles shall not issue any new distinctive license
77       plate authorized for issuance on and after July 1, 1995, unless there is a
78       guarantee of an initial issuance of at least 500 license plates.
79             (c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to distinctive license
80       plates issued under the provisions of K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 8-1,145, and
81       amendments thereto.
82             (d) The provisions of subsection (a), shall not apply to distinctive li-
83       cense plates issued under the provisions of section 1.  
84       Sec.  3. K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 8-1,141 is hereby repealed.
85        Sec.  4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
86       publication in the statute book.