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ACT No. 51
Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 317
BY REPRESENTATIVES COX, ANDERS, ARNOLD, BADON, BILLIOT, WESLEY
BISHOP, BROWN, HENRY BURNS, BURRELL, CHAMPAGNE, CHANEY,
CROMER, FANNIN, GAROFALO, GISCLAIR, GREENE, HAZEL, HENSGENS,
HILL, HOFFMANN, HOWARD, HUNTER, JEFFERSON, KLECKLEY, TERRY
LANDRY, LEOPOLD, LOPINTO, LORUSSO, JAY MORRIS, NORTON,
ORTEGO, PIERRE, PUGH, RITCHIE, SEABAUGH, THIBAUT, THOMPSON,
AND PATRICK WILLIAMS AND SENATORS ADLEY, ALARIO, APPEL,
BROOME, BUFFINGTON, CHABERT, CROWE, DONAHUE, GALLOT, JOHNS,
KOSTELKA, LONG, MARTINY, MORRELL, MURRAY, NEVERS, PEACOCK,
RISER, GARY SMITH, JOHN SMITH, THOMPSON, AND WALSWORTH
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 47:490.26, relative to military honor license plates; to provide for the2
establishment of a military honor license plate for the United States Army Rangers;3
to require the secretary to promulgate rules and regulations relative to the creation4
and implementation of this military honor license plate; to provide for the creation,5
issuance, and design of such plates; and to provide for related matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 47:490.26 is hereby enacted to read as follows:8
ยง490.26. Military honor license plates; "U.S. Army Ranger"9
A. The secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall10
establish a military honor license plate to be known as the "U.S. Army Ranger" plate.11
B. Upon application of a person authorized to wear a Ranger Tab pursuant12
to Army Regulation 600-8-22 Paragraph 8-48, the secretary of the Department of13
Public Safety and Corrections shall issue a military honor license plate to be used in14
lieu of a regular motor vehicle registration plate. The license plate shall be restricted15
to use on passenger cars, pickup trucks, recreational vehicles, motorcycles, and vans.16
The "U.S. Army Ranger" plate shall bear a likeness of the United States Army17
Ranger Tab as set forth in Department of the Army Pamphlet 670-1, Paragraph 22-18
16, centered on the left side of the license plate and the words "U.S. Army Ranger"19 ENROLLEDHB NO. 317
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centered on the bottom of the plate under the license plate number. The colors of the1
plate shall be black and gold.2
C. The fee for the license plate shall be the standard motor vehicle3
registration license fee provided for in R.S. 47:463.4
D. The secretary shall adopt rules and regulations to implement the5
provisions of this Section, including but not limited to rules governing the transfer6
of license plates from one vehicle to another and the disposition of such license7
plates.8
E.(1) Any applicant who qualifies for the military honor license plate9
authorized by this Section may be issued a plate for each vehicle registered in the10
applicant's name.11
(2) Except as otherwise provided in this Paragraph, each military honor12
license plate issued pursuant to this Section shall be returned to the secretary upon13
the death of the person to whom the plate was issued. A surviving spouse of a14
person to whom a license plate was issued pursuant to this Section may retain a15
license plate issued pursuant to this Section, provided the surviving spouse has not16
remarried and provided the surviving spouse applies to the secretary for a transfer17
of the license plate to the surviving spouse. A military honor license plate18
transferred pursuant to this Paragraph to a surviving spouse shall be returned to the19
secretary upon the death or remarriage of the surviving spouse.20
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED: