HB3505 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB3505

Introduced 2/24/2011, by Rep. Luis Arroyo

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

625 ILCS 5/3-600	from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-600
625 ILCS 5/3-696 new

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, upon receipt of a request of an incumbent alderman of the City of Chicago, accompanied by the appropriate application and fee, the Secretary of State shall issue one set of special Chicago alderman registration plates to the alderman. Provides that the special plates shall be affixed only to passenger vehicles of the first division or motor vehicles of the second division weighing not more than 8,000 pounds. Provides that the design and color of the plates shall be wholly within the discretion of the Secretary, except that the plates shall bear the alderman's ward number and the seal of the City of Chicago.

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A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning transportation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing Section 3-600 and adding Section 3-696 as follows:

(625 ILCS 5/3-600) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-600)

Sec. 3-600. Requirements for issuance of special plates.

(a) The Secretary of State shall issue only special plates that have been authorized by the General Assembly. The Secretary of State shall not issue a series of special plates unless applications, as prescribed by the Secretary, have been received for 10,000 plates of that series; except that: (1) the Secretary of State may prescribe some other required number of applications if that number is sufficient to pay for the total cost of designing, manufacturing and issuing the special license plate; and (2) the Secretary of State shall issue Chicago alderman license plates as provided in Section 3-696.

(b) The Secretary of State, upon issuing a new series of special license plates, shall notify all law enforcement officials of the design, color and other special features of the special license plate series.

(c) This Section shall not apply to special license plate categories in existence on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1990, or to the Secretary of State's discretion as established in Section 3-611.

(Source: P.A. 95-359, eff. 1-1-08.)

(625 ILCS 5/3-696 new)

Sec. 3-696. Chicago alderman license plates.

(a) Upon receipt of a request of an incumbent alderman of the City of Chicago, accompanied by the appropriate application and fee, the Secretary of State shall issue one set of special Chicago alderman registration plates to the alderman. The special plates issued under this Section shall be affixed only to passenger vehicles of the first division or motor vehicles of the second division weighing not more than 8,000 pounds. Plates issued under this Section shall expire according to the multi-year procedure established by Section 3-414.1 of this Code, but may not be displayed by a person after that person ceases to serve as alderman.

(b) The design and color of the plates shall be wholly within the discretion of the Secretary, except that the plates shall bear the alderman's ward number and the seal of the City of Chicago. Appropriate documentation, as determined by the Secretary, shall accompany each application.