SB 260-HISTORIC/ANTIQUE MOTOR VEHICLES    SENATOR RANDY PHILLIPS, sponsor SB 260, explained this bill related to restored and antique vehicles and would allow the vehicle owners to pay a one-time fee for the vehicle as opposed to what they are paying now on a biannual basis. Secondly, the bill would allow for the owner of the vehicle to get an Alaskan license plate in the year the vehicle was manufactured. He said for example he has a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner and if this bill were to pass and he desired to have a plate from 1969 it would be a white plate. A lot of other states have similar provisions in their laws to allow antique or classic car owners to have this. CHAIRMAN COWDERY asked if you identify it as an antique vehicle on the plate. SENATOR PHILLIPS said that was correct. He said the Antique Auto Mushers Association had endorsed this legislation. It has a zero fiscal note. BRUCE CAMPBELL, President, Model T Ford Club, member Antique Auto Mushers of Alaska, said they wanted to be able to use senior license plates on antique or historic vehicles for several years. They worked with Mary Marshburn, Director of DMV, to come up with this legislation. It would allow them to complete restoring old cars and put them back in the exact shape they were when they came out of the factory. Putting on the same year license plate makes the restoration complete and identifies the year of the car for people who are admiring it. He said this is not going to be a big thing because the bill specified the plates used for the antique vehicles have to be supplied by the owner and acquiring those plates can be quite a task. With this bill the historic vehicle owner will have two options, he can continue on with the existing law and the existing historic plate or he can elect to get the same year plate. DICK HEMMINGSEN, Vice President, Antique Auto Mushers Association Anchorage Chapter, said they are in support of SB 260. They are active all over Alaska. Some of their recent activities included cars traveling to Kodiak Island, Fairbanks and Denali. They participated in the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, the Alaska State Fair, the Bear Paw Festival in Eagle River and the Senior Center in Palmer. They take their cars quite seriously and this bill would allow them to complete their restoration process. He owns two 1956 Fords. SENATOR WILKEN asked where the $10 in the bill came from. MR. CAMPBELL said existing law provided for historic license plates and the fee for an historic license was $10. With this bill they would still pay the $10 for the historic license plate but if they elect to use the same year license plate they would have to pay an additional fee of $30. SENATOR TAYLOR said that is a one-time fee and the only time you would have to pay it again is if you replace the plates. He said on page 2, line 9, where it says "one time only upon initial registration" only related to the payment of the fee not the use of the vehicle. Page 2, line 16, says "driven or moved on a highway for the primary purpose of historical exhibition or similar activity" restricts the use of the vehicle. He said he wanted to make sure they were not in any way further restricting how the vehicle could be used. He has a 1935 Ford pickup he fully restored and uses two or three times a year, usually in parades. MARY MARSHBURN, Director, Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV), said Deputy Director Chuck Hosack was with her. He had followed the bill in 2001. DMV had no objection to the bill. SENATOR ELTON said he was struggling with the concept that a car 24 years younger than he could be designated an historical vehicle. He would have preferred it if they made it any car produced before 1948. SENATOR TAYLOR said he was excited because the current vehicle he drives is only two years away from being historical. SENATOR ELTON said in his family they call that a junker. SENATOR TAYLOR said that is what they call it in his family too but as long as it runs he keeps using it. SENATOR TAYLOR moved SB 260 from committee with individual recommendations and attached zero fiscal note. There being no object, the motion carried.