House File 2007

                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  THOMAS


    Passed House, Date                Passed Senate,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act establishing a special distinguished service cross motor
  2    vehicle registration plate and providing a fee.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 321.34, Code Supplement 2003, is
  1  2 amended by adding the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  24.  DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS SPECIAL
  1  4 PLATES.  The owner of a motor vehicle referred to in
  1  5 subsection 12 who has been awarded the distinguished service
  1  6 cross may, upon written application to the department and
  1  7 presentation of satisfactory proof of the award of the
  1  8 distinguished service cross as established by the Congress of
  1  9 the United States, order special registration plates with a
  1 10 distinguished service cross processed emblem.  The emblem
  1 11 shall be designed by the department in consultation with the
  1 12 adjutant general and shall signify that the owner was awarded
  1 13 the distinguished service cross.  The application is subject
  1 14 to approval by the department, in consultation with the
  1 15 adjutant general.  The special plates shall be issued at no
  1 16 charge and are subject to an annual registration fee of
  1 17 fifteen dollars.  The county treasurer shall validate the
  1 18 special plates in the same manner as regular registration
  1 19 plates are validated under this section.
  1 20    The surviving spouse of a person who was issued special
  1 21 plates under this subsection may continue to use the special
  1 22 plates subject to registration of the special plates in the
  1 23 surviving spouse's name and upon payment of the annual
  1 24 registration fee.  If the surviving spouse remarries, the
  1 25 surviving spouse shall return the special plates to the
  1 26 department and the department shall issue regular registration
  1 27 plates to the surviving spouse.
  1 28                           EXPLANATION
  1 29    This bill establishes a special motor vehicle registration
  1 30 plate for recipients of the distinguished service cross.  The
  1 31 state department of transportation, in consultation with the
  1 32 adjutant general, shall design the emblem and approve
  1 33 applications for the special plate.  The plates are to be
  1 34 issued free of charge, and the annual registration fee will be
  1 35 $15.  A surviving spouse may continue to use the special
  2  1 plates by registering them in the surviving spouse's name and
  2  2 paying the annual $15 registration fee, but the plates must be
  2  3 exchanged for regular plates if the surviving spouse
  2  4 remarries.
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