HB256 Alabama 2011 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

House Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2011

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Ron Johnson
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2011
Title: Motor vehicles, dealer license plates, number and use limited, transit plates provided for, Sec. 40-12-264 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, a motor vehicle dealer or a motorcycle dealer may purchase dealer license plates. The number of dealer license plates and the use of the plates on motor vehicles owned by the dealership is not limited. Also, a motor vehicle wholesaler, rebuilder, or reconditioner is authorized to purchase dealer license plates.
This bill would provide that a new motor vehicle dealer could purchase a maximum of 25 plates and a used motor vehicle dealer or a new motorcycle dealer could purchase a maximum of 10 plates. The bill would specify permissible uses of dealer license plates. The bill would remove the authority of licensed motor vehicle wholesalers, rebuilders, and reconditioners to purchase dealer license plates. The bill would authorize new and used licensed motor vehicle dealers, wholesalers, rebuilders, and reconditioners to purchase a maximum of 10 dealer transit license plates.
This bill would further provide civil and criminal penalties for violations.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Subjects: Motor Vehicles