Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 78

FORMERLY

SENATE BILL NO. 261

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 21, TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND DRIVERS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE (Three-fifths of the members elected to each Howe thereof concurring therein):

Section 1. Amend the Section 2121, Title 21 of the Delaware Code by striking paragraph (g) In its entirety and substituting in lieu thereof a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:

"(g) Upon written application, the Department shall furnish to any owner of a motor vehicle who is a resident of the State and who holds a valid, unrevoked, and unexpired official Amateur Radio Station License issued by the Federal Communications Commission, a special license plate for a motor vehicle owned by him and on which the required registration fee has been paid. The special plate shall bear the official amateur radio station call letters as assigned by the Federal Communications Commission to said Individual. The special plate shall supercede, the regular numbered plate assigned to such motor vehicle during the time said individual holds a valid, unrevoked and unexpired official Amateur Radio Station License issued by the Federal Communications Commission and while such motor vehicle is owned by him provided that at all times, the necessary registration fee has been paid for such motor vehicle. Upon making application for such special license plate, the owner shall pay, in addition to the regular registration fee, the sum of $10.00 for such plate. Application shall be made on such form as shall be prescribed by the Department.

The special license plate shall have imprinted thereon only the call letters of the licensee, the words, 'Delaware', 'The First State' and the expiration date of the license plate."

Section 2. Amend Section 2121, Title 21 of the Delaware Code by striking the first paragraph of subsection (h) in Its entirety and substituting In lieu thereof:

"This title notwithstanding, the Department, upon written application, shall furnish to any owner of a motor vehicle otherwise entitled to a license plate, who is a resident of this State, a special license plate for each motor vehicle owned by him for which the required registration fee has been paid, which plate shall have displayed thereon:".

Section 3. Amend Section 2121, Title 21 of the Delaware Code by striking from subsection (h) In the second paragraph the words "$25 annually for each set of plates" and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

"$25 annually for each plate".

Section 4. If any provision of this Act or its application to any person or circumstance is determined to be invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this Act which shall be given effect without the invalid provision or application and to that end, the provisions of this Act arc declared severable.

Section 5. This Act shall become effective upon its enactment Into law.

Approved July 2, 1985.