Personalized License Plates

(a)Purpose. The purpose of this Section is to provide revenue for the Drivers Education Fund.

(b)Application. Any person who is the registered owner or lessee of a passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle or trailer registered with the Department or who makes application for an original registration or renewal registration of any such vehicle may, upon payment of the fee prescribed in § 7123(g) of this Section, apply to the Department for personalized license plates, in the manner prescribed in § 7123(f) which plates shall be affixed to the passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle or trailer for which registration is sought in lieu of the regular license plates.

(c)Color and design. A personalized license plates shall be the same color and design as regular passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle or trailer license plates, and shall consist of numbers or letters, or any combination thereof not exceeding seven

(7)positions provided that there are no conflicts with existing passenger, commercial, trailer, motorcycle or special license plates series or with the provisions of §§ 7121 and 7122. CH. 7 VEHICLE LICENSE AND REGISTRATION

(d)Personalized License Plates: Defined. Personalized license plates, as used in this Section means license plates that have displayed upon them the registration number assigned to the passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle or trailer for which such registration number was issued in a combination of letters or numbers, or both, requested by the owner or lessee of the vehicle.

(e)Issuance. Personalized license plates shall be issued only to the registered owner or lessee of the vehicle on which they are to be displayed.

(f)Form and Date of Application: Letters and Numbers. An applicant for issuance of personalized licensed plates or renewal of such plates in the subsequent year pursuant to this Section shall file an application therefor in such form and by such date as the Department may require indicating thereon the combination of letters or numbers, or both, requested as a registration number. There shall be no duplication of registration numbers.

(g)Additional Fees. In addition to the regular registration fee, the applicant shall be charged the cost of the personalized plate plus an additional Fifty Dollars ($50.00). In addition to the regular renewal fee, the applicant for a renewal of such plates shall be charged an additional fee of Twenty Dollars ($20.00).

(h)Drivers Education Fund. All revenue derived from the fees provided for in §§ 7123(g) and 7123(i) shall be deposited in the Drivers Education Fund.

(i)Transfer Fee. Whenever any person who has been issued personalized license plates applies to the Department for transfer of such plates to another passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle or trailer, a transfer fee of Twenty Five Dollars ($25.00) shall be charged in addition to all other appropriate fees.

(j)Transfer or Surrender of Plates. When any person who has been issued personalized license plates sells, trades or otherwise releases ownership of the vehicle upon which the personalized license plates have been displayed, he shall immediately report the transfer of such plates to an acquired passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle or trailer pursuant to § 7123(i) or he shall surrender such plates to the Department forthwith.

(k)Rules and Regulations. The Director may establish rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Section.