WAC 308-96A-560   Special license plates -- Criteria for creation or continued issuance.  (1) What is a special license plate series? For the purpose of this rule a special license plate series is one license plate design with a range of numbers and letter combinations to be determined by the department.

     (2) What criteria are used to discontinue issuing special license plates? A special license plate series may be canceled if:

     (a) The department determines that fewer than five hundred special license plates in the approved configuration are purchased annually and no less than one thousand five hundred special license plates are purchased in any continuous three-year period. (Except those license plates issued under RCW 46.16.301, 46.16.305, and 46.16.324); or

     (b) If the sponsoring organization does not submit an annual financial statement required by RCW 46.16.765 and certified by an accountant; or

     (c) The legislature concurs with a recommendation from the special license plate review board to discontinue a plate series created after January 1, 2003; or

     (d) The state legislature changes the law allowing that plate series.

     (3) Can an organization have more than one special plate series? No. Organizations cannot have more than one special license plate series except those issued before January 1, 2006. Those organizations that already have multiple special plate series may not have more.

     An updated design of the current special license plates does not constitute more than one special plate series. The newest design supersedes the prior design.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 46.01.110. 07-20-110, § 308-96A-560, filed 10/3/07, effective 11/3/07. Statutory Authority: RCW 46.01.110, 46.16.135, 46.16.225, 46.16.490, 46.16.276. 04-08-079, § 308-96A-560, filed 4/6/04, effective 5/7/04. Statutory Authority: RCW 46.01.110, 46.16.335, 46.16.276. 01-10-069, § 308-96A-560, filed 4/30/01, effective 5/31/01. Statutory Authority: RCW 46.01.110 and 1997 c 291. 98-01-151, § 308-96A-560, filed 12/22/97, effective 1/22/98. Statutory Authority: RCW 46.16.301, 46.16.324 and 46.01.110. 95-11-043, § 308-96A-560, filed 5/10/95, effective 6/10/95. Statutory Authority: RCW 46.01.110. 93-14-083, § 308-96A-560, filed 6/30/93, effective 7/31/93; 91-03-091, § 308-96A-560, filed 1/18/91, effective 2/18/91.]