00SENATE BILL NO. 339                                                                                                   
01 "An Act relating to a volunteer fire fighter license plate."                                                            
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03    * Section 1.  AS 28.10.181 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                          
04  (t)  Special request volunteer fire fighter plates.  Upon application by the owner                                    
05 of a passenger vehicle, noncommercial van or pick-up truck, or motor home, the                                          
06 department may design and issue registration plates that identify the vehicle as                                        
07 registered to a member of a volunteer fire department.  The department may                                              
08 disapprove the issuance of registration plates under this subsection when the requested                                 
09 plates are a duplication of an existing registration.                                                                   
10    * Sec. 2.  AS 28.10.421(d)  is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                          
11   (14)  special request volunteer fire fighter plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$50                                   
12 plus the fee required for that vehicle under (b)(1) or (2) of this section; the fee                                    
13 required by this paragraph shall be collected only on the first issuance and on the                                     
14 replacement of special request plates; the commissioner of administration shall                                         

01 separately account for the fees received under this paragraph that the department                                       
02 deposits in the general fund; notwithstanding (g) of this section, the annual estimated                                 
03 balance in the account that is in excess of the cost of issuing special request plates                                  
04 may be appropriated by the legislature to the Department of Public Safety for the                                       
05 support of programs benefiting fire fighter training.