January 28, 2004





SENATE BILL No. 214

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DIGEST OF SB 214 (Updated January 27, 2004 12:00 pm - DI 71)



Citations Affected: Noncode.

Synopsis: Truck license plate cycle. Authorizes the commissioner of the bureau of motor vehicles to adopt rules providing that the cycle for issuance and replacement of a license plate issued to certain trucks for calendar year 2003 ends in 2009.

Effective: July 1, 2004.





Wyss, Craycraft




    January 8, 2004, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security.
    January 27, 2004, reported favorably _ Do Pass.






January 28, 2004

Second Regular Session 113th General Assembly (2004)


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SENATE BILL No. 214



    A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning motor vehicles.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

    SECTION 1. [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2004] (a) As used in this SECTION, "commissioner" refers to the commissioner of the bureau of motor vehicles appointed under IC 9-14-1-2.
    (b) As used in this SECTION, "truck" has the meaning set forth in IC 9-13-2-188(a).
    (c) This SECTION does not apply to the following:
        (1) Low digit license plates issued under IC 9-18-2-28.
        (2) Truck license plates issued under IC 9-18-2-4.5 or IC 9-18-2-18.
        (3) General assembly and other state official license plates issued under IC 9-18-16.
    (d) Notwithstanding IC 9-18-2-47(a), the requirement that the rules adopted by the commissioner provide that the cycle for issuance and replacement of license plates be valid for five (5) years does not apply to a license plate:
        (1) issued to a truck;
        (2) issued for the five (5) year cycle beginning in calendar year 2003; and


        (3) due to expire in calendar year 2008.
    (e) The commissioner may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 prescribing the cycle for the issuance and replacement of license plates issued to a truck to:
        (1) begin in calendar year 2003; and
        (2) end in calendar year 2009.
    (f) This SECTION expires December 31, 2009.