RS 47:463.48

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RS 47:463.48

§463.48. Special prestige license plates; emergency medical technicians

A. The secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall establish a special prestige license plate for motor vehicles, restricted to passenger cars, pickup trucks, vans, and recreational vehicles which may be issued, upon application, to any citizen of Louisiana who is a certified emergency medical technician.

B. Each person who applies for the issuance or renewal of a prestige license plate shall present to the secretary such proof of certification as an emergency medical technician as is acceptable to the secretary.

C. The fee for issuing the special emergency medical technician license plate shall be a fee of twenty-five dollars a year for each plate, which fee shall be in addition to the regular motor vehicle license fee as provided in R.S. 47:463.

D. The department shall collect the fee for the special license plates and forward twenty-four dollars to the state treasurer for deposit into the Emergency Medical Technician Dedicated Fund Account created by the provisions of R.S. 40:1135.10. The remaining portion of the fee shall be retained by the department to offset administrative costs.

E. The secretary shall promulgate rules to implement the provisions of this Section, including but not limited to rules governing the issuance, transfer, and disposition of such license plates and governing the design of the plate. Such rules shall be promulgated in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.

Acts 1997, No. 1131, §2, eff. July 14, 1997; Acts 2018, No. 612, §15, eff. July 1, 2020; Acts 2019, No. 404, §1, eff. July 1, 2020.

NOTE: See Acts 2018, No. 612 and Acts 2019, No. 404 providing for the effects of the conversion of certain dedicated funds to special statutorily dedicated fund accounts.