ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
MOTOR VEHICLE DIVISION
810-5-1-.212. Uses and Transferability of U.S.S. Alabama Battleship
Commission Distinctive Tags.
(1) WHEREAS, Section 40-2-11 empowers the Commissioner of Revenue
to supervise and control the administration of the various tax and license laws
of the State of Alabama and
(2) WHEREAS, Section 32-6-55 provides that special tags be issued
to the Chairman of the USS Alabama Battleship Commission and
(3) WHEREAS, the special tags issued to the individual and not
to the vehicle the following procedures are hereby adopted.
(4) The distinctive license plates issued under this division shall
not be transferable as between motor vehicle owners, and in the event the owner
of a vehicle bearing such distinctive plates shall sell, trade, exchange or
otherwise dispose of same, such plates shall be retained by the owner to whom
issued and by him returned to the Judge of Probate or License Commissioner of
the county who shall receive and account for same in the manner stated below.
In the event such owner shall acquire by purchase, trade, exchange or otherwise
a vehicle for which no standard plates have been issued during the current license
year, the Judge of Probate or License Commissioner of the county shall, upon
being furnished by the owner thereof proper certification of the acquisition
of such vehicle and the payment of the motor vehicle license tax due upon such
vehicle, authorize the transfer to said vehicle of the distinctive license plates
previously purchased by such owner, which plates shall authorize the operation
of said vehicle for the remainder of the then current license year. In the further
event the owner of such distinctive plates shall acquire by purchase, trade,
exchange or otherwise a vehicle for which standard plates have been issued during
the current license year, the Judge of Probate or License Commissioner shall
upon proper certification of such owner and upon delivery to such official of
the standard plates previously issued for such vehicle, authorize the owner
of such newly-acquired vehicle to place the distinctive plates previously purchased
by him upon such vehicle and to use same thereon for the remainder of the then
current license year. Such notice of transfer of ownership shall be made of
record by the Judge of Probate or the License Commissioner.
(5) Any person acquiring by purchase, trade, exchange or otherwise
any vehicle formerly bearing such distinctive plates shall be authorized, upon
certification of such fact to the Judge of Probate or License Commissioner of
the county and the payment of the fee now required by law, to purchase standard
replacement plates for such vehicle which shall authorize the operation of such
vehicle by the new owner for the remainder of the license year. (Adopted
August 5, 1982) (Authority: §§40-2-11, 32-6-56, 32-6-151
and 40-12-272)
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