Second Regular Session Sixty-fifth General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO INTRODUCED LLS NO. 06-0223.01 Jery Payne HOUSE BILL 06-1020 HOUSE SPONSORSHIP Rose, SENATE SPONSORSHIP (None), House Committees Senate Committees Transportation & Energy A BILL FOR AN ACT Concerning the issuance of special license plates for motor vehicles valued by collectors due to their early date of manufacture. Bill Summary (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.) Defines the phrase "early date of manufacture" for the purposes of registering collectors' motor vehicles that are at least 50 years old. Requires the executive director of the department of revenue to register collectors' motor vehicles for 5 years. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. 42-3-219 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH to read: 42-3-219. Special registration of collectors' items. (1) (c) For the purposes of this section, "early date of manufacture" means that a motor vehicle was manufactured at least fifty years before the current date of registration. SECTION 2. 42-3-219 (3) (a), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended to read: 42-3-219. Special registration of collectors' items. (3) (a) The executive director of the department may shall register such vehicles and issue such plates for a period not exceeding five years, but all such registrations and plates shall expire on the same date regardless of the date of issue. SECTION 3. Effective date. This act shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly that is allowed for submitting a referendum petition pursuant to article V, section 1 (3) of the state constitution (August 9, 2006, if adjournment sine die is on May 10, 2006); except that, if a referendum petition is filed against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within such period, then the act, item, section, or part, if approved by the people, shall take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by proclamation of the governor.