Amended in Assembly March 26, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 932

Introduced by Assembly Members Daly and Thurmond

February 26, 2015

An act to add Section 5165 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 932, as amended, Daly. Specialized license plates: professional sports.

Existing law authorizes a state agency to apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to sponsor a specialized license plate program, and requires the DMV to issue those license plates if the agency receives 7,500 applications within a 12 month period, among other requirements. Existing law requires those license plates to have a design or contain a message that publicizes or promotes the state agency, or the official policy, mission, or work of the state agency. Existing law requires the DMV to charge certain additional fees for specialized license plates and deposit those fees in the Specialized License Plate Fund for allocation to the sponsoring agency, as specified.

This bill would require begin delete an unspecified state agency end delete begin insert the Department of Parks and Recreation end insert to apply to the DMV to sponsor a license plate program for the issuance of license plates bearing the officially licensed logo, emblem, or trademark begin delete of end delete begin insert provided by end insert a begin insert California end insert professional sports franchise. The bill would require the DMV to issue those license plates if the begin delete unspecified state agency end delete begin insert Department of Parks and Recreation end insert obtains 7,500 applications by January 1, 2018. begin insert The bill would require the revenue generated from the license plates, as specified, to be deposited in the California State Parks Account created by the bill in the Specialized License Plate Fund, for use, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the California State Parks Office of Grants and Local Services, for funding local parks and recreation grant programs. end insert

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 5165 is added to the Vehicle Code, to
read:

5165.  

(a)  begin insert (1) end insert begin insert   end insert The begin delete ____ end delete begin insert Department of Parks and Recreation end insert
shall apply to the department begin insert , pursuant to Section 5156, end insert to sponsor
a professional sports franchise license plate program. begin insert The
department shall issue specialized license plates for that program
if the Department of Parks and Recreation complies with the
requirements of Section 5156. end insert

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(2) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 5156, the
department shall establish the specialized license plate program
if the Department of Parks and Recreation obtains 7,500
applications for the specialized license plates on or before January
1, 2018, and meets the other requirements of this article.

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(b) Notwithstanding Section 5154, the Department of Parks and
Recreation shall accept and use the officially licensed logos,
emblems, and trademarks provided by California professional
sports franchises for the license plate.

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(b) Notwithstanding Section 5154, a license plate issued
pursuant to this section shall bear the officially licensed logo,
emblem, or trademark of a professional sports franchise.

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(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 5157, the
additional fees prescribed by Section 5157 for the issuance,
renewal, or transfer of the specialized license plates shall be
deposited, after the department deducts its administrative costs,
in the California State Parks Account, which is hereby created in
the Specialized License Plate Fund. The funds in the account shall
be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the California
State Parks Office of Grants and Local Services, for funding local
parks and recreation grant programs.

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(d) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department, in
consultation with the Department of Parks and Recreation, will
accept and make available pursuant to this article special
professional sports franchise license plates. Specifically, it is the
intent of the Legislature that the license plates issued pursuant to
this section shall consist of a sports franchise logo, emblem, or
trademark selected by the registrant to the left of the numerical
series.

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(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 5156, the
department shall establish the specialized license plate program if
the ____ obtains 7,500 applications for the specialized license
plates on or before January 1, 2018, and meets the other
requirements of this article.

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