February 8, 2006, Introduced by Reps. Gaffney and Hune and referred to the Committee on Transportation.
A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled
"Michigan vehicle code,"
by amending sections 224 and 229 (MCL 257.224 and 257.229), section
224 as amended by 1995 PA 129 and section 229 as amended by 1988 PA
276.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 224. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this act
regarding tabs or stickers, upon registering a vehicle, the
secretary of state shall issue to the owner 1 registration plate.
(2) A registration plate shall display the registration number
assigned to the vehicle for which the registration plate is issued;
the name of this state, which may be abbreviated; and when the
registration plate expires, which may be shown by a tab or sticker
furnished by the secretary of state.
(3) A registration plate issued for motor vehicles owned and
operated by this state; a state institution; a municipality; a
privately incorporated, nonprofit volunteer fire department; or a
nonpublic, nonprofit college or university of this state shall not
expire at any particular time but shall be renewed when the
registration plate is worn out or is illegible. This registration
plate shall be assigned upon proper application and payment of the
applicable fee and may be used on any eligible vehicle titled to
the applicant if a written record is kept of the vehicles upon
which the registration plate is used. The written record shall
state the time the registration plate is used on a particular
vehicle. The record shall be open to inspection by a law
enforcement officer or a representative of the secretary of state.
(4) A registration plate issued for a vehicle owned by the
civil
air patrol as organized under sections 1 to 8, chapter 527,
60
Stat. 346 to 347, 36 U.S.C. 201 to 208 36 USC 40301 to 40307; a
vehicle owned by a nonprofit organization and used to transport
equipment for providing dialysis treatment to children at camp; an
emergency support vehicle used exclusively for emergencies and
owned and operated by a federally recognized nonprofit charitable
organization; a vehicle owned and operated by a nonprofit veterans
center; a motor vehicle having a truck chassis and a locomotive or
ship's
body which that
is owned by a nonprofit veterans
organization and used exclusively in parades and civic events; a
vehicle owned and operated by a nonprofit recycling center or a
federally recognized nonprofit conservation organization until
December 31, 2000; a motor vehicle owned and operated by a senior
citizen center; and a registration plate issued for buses including
station wagons, carryalls, or similarly constructed vehicles owned
and operated by a nonprofit parents' transportation corporation
used for school purposes, parochial school, society, church Sunday
school, or other grammar school, or by a nonprofit youth
organization or nonprofit rehabilitation facility shall be issued
upon proper application and payment of the applicable fee provided
in section 801(1)(g) or (h) to the applicant for the vehicle
identified in the application. The vehicle shall be used
exclusively for activities of the school or organization and shall
be designated by proper signs showing the school or organization
operating the vehicle. The registration plate shall expire on
December 31 in the fifth year following the date of issuance. The
registration plate may be transferred to another vehicle upon
proper application and payment of a $10.00 transfer fee.
(5) The registration plate and the required letters and
numerals on the registration plate shall be of sufficient size to
be plainly readable from a distance of 100 feet during daylight.
The secretary of state may issue a tab or tabs designating the
month and year of expiration.
(6) The secretary of state shall issue for every passenger
motor vehicle rented without a driver the same type of registration
plate as the type of registration plate issued for private
passenger vehicles.
(7) A person shall not operate a vehicle on the public
highways or streets of this state displaying a registration plate
other than the registration plate issued for the vehicle by the
secretary of state, except as provided in this chapter for
nonresidents, and by assignment provided in subsection (3).
(8) The registration plate displayed on a vehicle registered
on the basis of elected gross weight shall indicate the elected
gross weight for which the vehicle is registered.
(9) Upon the request of a person applying to renew
registration plates, if the department is not issuing a tab or
sticker, the department shall issue a new registration plate to
that applicant with the same letter and number combination as the
registration plate being renewed.
Sec. 229. (1) If a registration certificate, registration
plate, certificate of title, or duplicate certificate of title is
lost, mutilated, or becomes illegible, the person entitled to
possession of a registration certificate, registration plate,
certificate of title, or duplicate certificate of title or the
legal representative or successor in interest of that person as
shown by the records of the department shall immediately make
application for and may obtain a duplicate or a new registration
under
a new registration number, as determined to be most
advisable
by the department requested
by the applicant, upon the
applicant furnishing information satisfactory to the department and
upon payment of the required fee. Every duplicate certificate of
title shall contain the legend: "This is a duplicate certificate
and may be subject to the rights of a person under the original
certificate", and shall be delivered to the person entitled to
possession of a registration certificate or certificate of title
under section 222. Upon issuance of a duplicate registration
certificate or plate, the previous registration certificate or
plate last issued shall be void.
(2) If a certificate of title is lost at the time that
ownership of the vehicle is to be transferred to another person,
the secretary of state need not issue a duplicate certificate of
title if all of the following are met:
(a) The person from whom ownership of the vehicle is to be
transferred appears in person at a secretary of state office and
supplies evidence satisfactory to the secretary of state of his or
her identity and his or her ownership of the vehicle and pays the
fee required under section 806.
(b) The person to whom the vehicle is to be transferred, or
his or her legal representative, accompanies the person described
under subdivision (a) and makes application for an original
certificate of title, supplies evidence satisfactory to the
secretary of state of his or her identity, and pays the fee
required under section 806.
(3) If the secretary of state does not issue a duplicate
certificate of title pursuant to subsection (2), the secretary of
state's records shall indicate the transfer of the vehicle without
a surrender of the certificate of title.