ARTICLE 8. Special Plates

Article 8 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.

§§ 5000–5024 · 34 sections

§ 5000 (a) Identification plates issued for trailers, semitrailers, motor-driven cycles, and pole and pipe dollies, and such vehicles as are exempt from the payment…
§ 5001 The department may issue license plates for vehicles exempt from registration fees in the same series as plates issued for nonexempt vehicles. The plates may…
§ 5001.5 The director may enter into agreements or arrangements with motor vehicle departments in other states to provide for a reciprocal exchange of regular series…
§ 5002 The department may issue regular series plates to the Department of General Services for use on motor vehicles maintained within motor vehicle pools of…
§ 5002.5 The department shall issue regular series license plates for any motor vehicle owned by, or in the possession and use of, the Senate or Assembly, upon the…
§ 5002.6 (a) The Chancellor or a president of a campus of the California State University, or the president or a chancellor of a campus of the University of California,…
§ 5002.7 (a) For a county of over 20,000 square miles in area, a member of the county board of supervisors, or a county assessor, auditor, controller, treasurer, or tax…
§ 5002.8 (a) (1) Distinctive license plates issued for a motor vehicle owned by a current or retired Member of the California Legislature, which plates denote that the…
§ 5003 The department shall maintain a record of the registration of exempt vehicles with regular series plates, which record shall not be open to public inspection.…
§ 5004 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any owner of a vehicle described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) which is operated or moved over the…
§ 5004.1 (a) (1) An owner of a vehicle that is a 1980 or older model-year vehicle may, after the requirements for the registration of the vehicle are complied with and…
§ 5004.3 (a) Subject to subdivision (d), the department shall establish the California Legacy License Plate Program and create and issue a series of specialized license…
§ 5004.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any owner of a motorcycle manufactured in the year 1942 or prior thereto shall, upon application in the…
§ 5005 (a) Any person holding an unexpired amateur radio station license issued by the Federal Communications Commission may, after the requirements for the…
§ 5006 (a) The department may issue distinctive license plates for motor vehicles owned or leased by an honorary consular officer or a similar official when the…
§ 5006.5 (a) The department may issue, for a fee determined by the department to be sufficient to reimburse the department for actual costs incurred pursuant to this…
§ 5007 (a) The department shall, upon application and without additional fees, issue a special license plate or plates pursuant to procedures adopted by the…
§ 5007.5 (a) Upon a receipt of request for information by a local law enforcement agency or local or state agency responsible for the administration or enforcement of…
§ 5008 (a) Any person who is regularly employed or engaged as a bona fide newspaper, newsreel, or television photographer or cameraman, may, after the requirements…
§ 5010 Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, when a motor vehicle which is leased to a school district for use as a schoolbus, as defined in Section 545,…
§ 5011 Every piece of special construction equipment, special mobile equipment, cemetery equipment, trailer, semitrailer, and every logging vehicle shall display an…
§ 5014 An application by a person other than a manufacturer or dealer for an identification plate for special construction equipment, cemetery equipment, special…
§ 5014.1 (a) Upon the implementation of the permanent trailer identification plate program, the following applies: (1) All trailers, except in cases where the…
§ 5015 (a) The application for an identification plate for special construction equipment, special mobile equipment, cemetery equipment, and any logging vehicle shall…
§ 5016 Upon proper application and payment of the fees specified in Section 5014.1 or 9261, the department shall issue an identification plate and an identification…
§ 5016.5 (a) The department may issue a special identification plate or other suitable device to a manufacturer or dealer of special construction equipment, special…
§ 5017 (a) Each identification plate issued under Section 5016 shall bear a distinctive number to identify the equipment, logging vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, or…
§ 5018 Whenever the ownership of equipment, a logging vehicle, or an implement of husbandry is transferred, the transferee shall within 10 days thereafter make…
§ 5019 The authorizations for the issuance of special license plates referred to in Sections 5005 and 5008 do not apply to trailers.
§ 5020 Any person holding an unexpired license for a class D radio station in the Citizens Radio Service issued by the Federal Communications Commission may, at the…
§ 5021 After the requirements for the registration of the vehicle have been complied with, the department shall issue such plates in lieu of the regular license…
§ 5022 (a) Until December 31, 1984, a person described in Section 5101 may also apply for a set of commemorative 1984 Olympic reflectorized license plates and the…
§ 5023 (a) (1) Until December 31, 2013, a person described in Section 5101 may also apply for a set of commemorative Olympic reflectorized license plates and the…
§ 5024 (a) A person described in Section 5101 may also apply for a set of commemorative collegiate reflectorized license plates, and the department shall issue those…