BILL NUMBER: AB 2499	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Portantino

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 5004.5 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2499, as introduced, Portantino. Vehicles: motorcycles: special
plates.
   Existing law requires an owner of a motorcycle manufactured in the
year 1942 or prior, upon application in the manner and at the time
prescribed by the Department of Motor Vehicles, to be issued special
license plates for the motorcycle.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
law.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 5004.5 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   5004.5.   (a)    Notwithstanding any other
provision of this code,  any   an  owner of
a motorcycle manufactured in the year 1942 or prior  thereto
  to that year  shall, upon application in the
manner and at the time prescribed by the department, be issued
special license plates for the motorcycle. The special license plates
assigned to  such motorcycles   the motorcycle
 shall run in a separate numerical series. An additional fee of
fifteen dollars ($15) shall be charged for the initial issuance of
the special license plates.  Such   The 
plates shall be permanent and shall not be required to be replaced.
If  such   the  special license plates
become damaged or unserviceable in any manner, replacement for the
plates may be obtained from the department upon proper application
and upon payment of  such   the  fee as is
provided for in Section 9265. Except as otherwise provided in this
section,  such motorcycles   the motorcycle
shall be subject to the same annual registration fees and provisions
of law as are other motorcycles. 
   All revenues 
    (b)     Revenues  derived from the
fees provided for in this section above actual costs of the
production and issuance of the special plates for motorcycles, or the
replacement thereof, shall be deposited in the California
Environmental License Plate Fund by the department.