2000 Minnesota Statutes

     168.1235 Veterans service groups; special stickers. 

    Subdivision 1.    General requirements; fees.  (a) On 
 payment of a fee of $10 for each set of two license plates, 
 payment of the registration tax required by law, and compliance 
 with other laws relating to the registration and licensing of a 
 passenger automobile, pickup truck, van, or self-propelled 
 recreational vehicle, as applicable, the registrar shall issue a 
 special license plate sticker for each plate to an applicant who 
 is a member of a congressionally chartered veterans service 
 organization and is an owner or joint owner of a passenger 
 automobile, pickup truck, van, or self-propelled recreational 
 vehicle. 

    (b) The additional fee of $10 is payable at the time of 
 initial application for the special license plate stickers and 
 when the license plates must be replaced or renewed.  An 
 applicant must not be issued more than two sets of special 
 license plate stickers for vehicles listed in paragraph (a) and 
 owned or jointly owned by the applicant. 

    (c) The commissioner of veterans affairs shall determine 
 what documentation is required by each applicant to show that 
 the applicant is a member of a congressionally chartered 
 veterans service organization and is entitled to the special 
 license plate stickers. 

    Subd. 2.    Design.  (a) The commissioner of veterans 
 affairs, after consultation with each of the congressionally 
 chartered veterans service organizations, shall design the 
 special license plate stickers, subject to the approval of the 
 registrar.  The emblem, symbol, or other pictorial 
 representation on the sticker must be at least as large as the 
 letters and numerals on the plate and the registrar shall allow 
 for plates with spaces for the stickers in place of a numeral or 
 letter. 

    (b) Each congressionally chartered veterans service 
 organization must arrange for any applicable rules of the 
 national organization to be changed or copyrights to be released 
 before the commissioner may issue special license plate stickers 
 to members of any particular service organization under this 
 section. 

    Subd. 3.    Number estimated.  The commissioner of 
 veterans affairs shall estimate the number of special plate 
 stickers that will be required and submit the estimate to the 
 registrar.  

    Subd. 4.    Plate stickers transfer.  Notwithstanding 
 section 168.12 or other law to the contrary, on payment of a fee 
 of $5, the special plate stickers issued under subdivision 1, 
 may be transferred to other license plates on a passenger 
 automobile, pickup truck, van, or self-propelled recreational 
 vehicle owned or jointly owned by the person to whom the 
 stickers were issued. 

    Subd. 5.    Fees credited.  Fees collected under this 
 section must be paid into the state treasury and credited to the 
 highway user tax distribution fund. 

    HIST: 1997 c 159 art 2 s 13; 2000 c 426 s 4,5