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SENATE BILL NO. 5494
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State of Washington 51st Legislature 1989 Regular Session
By Senators Bender, Thorsness, Owen and DeJarnatt
Read first time 1/26/89 and referred to Committee on Transportation.
AN ACT Relating to amateur radio operator license plates; and amending RCW 46.16.320.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 46.16.320, chapter 12, Laws of 1961 as last amended by section 10, chapter 118, Laws of 1975 1st ex. sess. and RCW 46.16.320 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Every person having a valid official amateur radio operator's license issued:
(a) For
a term of ((five)) ten years by the federal communications
commission, or
(b) For the same term by the federal department of defense under its military affiliate radio program, is entitled to apply to the director for, and upon satisfactory showing, to receive, in lieu of the regular motor vehicle license plates similar plates bearing the official amateur radio call letters of the applicant assigned by the federal communications commission or the department of defense instead of numbers.
(2) In addition to the annual license fee collected under chapter 46.16 RCW and chapter 82.44 RCW, there shall be collected from each applicant for such special license plates an additional license fee of five dollars upon the issue of a state plate but shall not apply on those years that a yearly tab is issued. Such special fee shall be deposited in the motor vehicle fund. Application for renewal of the amateur radio operator's call license plate must be made no later than twenty days prior to the end of each registration year, and all such applications shall be accompanied by a notarized statement of facts included on the amateur's valid FCC or military affiliate radio program license.