Bill > S2129

Introduced Session

This bill authorizes the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission ("commission") to issue South Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Association license plates for a motor vehicle owned or leased and registered in this State. The bill requires a $50 application fee and a $10 annual renewal fee for these license plates, in addition to the fees otherwise prescribed by law for the registration of a motor vehicle. The additional fees are to be deposited in the "South Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Association License Plate Fund" ("fund"), in the Department of the Treasury, created in this bill. The funds are to be appropriated equally on an annual basis to the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs for the aid of veterans organizations and to the Emergency Management Section of the Division of State Police for use by local emergency management organizations. The commission is to be reimbursed for the costs incurred for producing, issuing, renewing, and publicizing the availability of the special plates and for any computer programming necessary to implement the license plate program from donors and the fees collected prior to their deposit into the fund. The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission ("chief administrator") is to annually certify the average cost per license plate incurred in the immediately preceding year which cost is to be approved by the Joint Budget Oversight Committee, or its successor. If the certified average cost per license plate exceeds the $50 application fee for two consecutive years, the chief administrator may discontinue issuing the South Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Association license plate.

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Fred Madden (D)*, 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Transportation Committee (on 03/07/2022)

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