§ 42-3-252 — Special plates - childhood cancer awareness plate - short title

(1) The short title of this section is the Gabriel Santistevan Childhood Cancer
License Plate Act.

(2) Beginning on or before January 1, 2019, the department shall issue special
license plates to qualified applicants in accordance with this section for
motorcycles, passenger cars, trucks, or noncommercial or recreational motor
vehicles that do not exceed sixteen thousand pounds empty weight.

(3) (a) There is hereby established the childhood cancer awareness license
plate. The department may stop issuing the plate if fewer than three thousand
plates are issued by July 1, 2023. A person who was issued a childhood cancer
awareness license plate on or before July 1, 2023, may continue to use it after July 1,
2023, regardless of whether the department stops issuing the special license plate.

(b) The department shall use a design from an organization meeting the
standards of subsection (4) of this section, but the design must conform to
department standards and be approved by the department.

(4) (a) At least once every five years, the department shall designate an
organization to qualify applicants to be issued the childhood cancer awareness
license plate. The organization must:

(I) Be headquartered in Colorado;

(II) Have been in existence for at least five years;

(III) Ensure that the money from the donations required in subsection (4)(b) of
this section covers costs for operations in Colorado or is spent, in accordance with
subsection (4)(a)(IV) of this section, in Colorado; and

(IV) Spend at least fifty percent of the organization's revenue financially
assisting:

(A) Families with minors being treated in Colorado for cancer; or

(B) Research foundations that provide money for pediatric cancer research.

(b) A person may apply for a childhood cancer awareness license plate if the
person pays the taxes and fees required under this section and provides to the
department or an authorized agent a certificate issued by the organization chosen
in accordance with this subsection (4) confirming that the applicant has made a
donation to the organization. The organization may establish a minimum donation
amount to qualify for the plate. The amount must neither be less than twenty-five
dollars nor more than seventy-five dollars. The organization shall use the donation
to financially assist:

(I) Families of a minor being treated in Colorado for cancer; or

(II) Research foundations that provide money for pediatric cancer research.

(c) To qualify applicants to have a childhood cancer awareness license plate,
the organization chosen in accordance with this subsection (4) must file with the
department an annual statement verifying that it is a nonprofit organization unless
the department stops issuing the license plate.

(5) The amount of the taxes and fees for special license plates under this
section is the same as the amount of the taxes and fees for regular motor vehicle
license plates; except that the department shall collect an additional one-time fee
of twenty-five dollars for issuance or replacement of the license plate. The
department shall transmit the additional one-time fee to the state treasurer, who
shall credit the fee to the highway users tax fund created in section 43-4-201.

(6) An applicant may apply for personalized childhood cancer awareness
license plates. Upon payment of the additional fee required by section 42-3-211
(6)(a) for personalized license plates, the department may issue the plates if the
applicant complies with section 42-3-211. If an applicant has existing personalized
license plates for a motor vehicle, the applicant may transfer the combination of
letters or numbers to a new set of childhood cancer awareness license plates for
the vehicle upon paying the fee required by section 42-3-211 (6)(a) and upon turning
in the existing plates to the department. A person who has obtained personalized
license plates under this subsection (6) shall pay the annual fee imposed by section
42-3-211 (6)(b) for renewal of the personalized plates. The fees under this
subsection (6) are in addition to all other applicable taxes and fees.

Source: L. 2018: Entire section added, (HB 18-1255), ch. 226, p. 1434, � 1,
effective August 8.