61-3-478. Generic specialty license plate sponsor fee -- exception. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), upon approval of an organization's application to sponsor a generic specialty license plate and before a sponsor's generic specialty license plates may be manufactured, the department shall assess and the sponsor shall pay a $4,000 fee to reimburse the department of corrections for the prison industries training program for the initial costs incurred in producing the generic specialty license plates for the sponsor.
     (2) In lieu of the fee required in subsection (1), a minimum of 400 applications for a sponsor's generic specialty license plates must be filed and prepaid with the department before the generic specialty license plates may be manufactured and issued.

     History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 402, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 280, L. 2003.