§ 42-3-270 — Special plates - Chicana/o license plate

Colorado § 42-3-270

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 42: Vehicles and
• Art.: Registration, Taxation, and License Plates

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(1) Beginning on
January 1, 2025, or when the department is able to issue the plates, 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.

(2) (a) There is established the Chicana/o license plate.

(b) The department shall design the special license plate with input from
interested persons to show that the owner supports the Latin American community.

(3) (a) At least once every five years, the department shall designate one or
more organizations to qualify applicants to be issued the Chicana/o license plate.
An organization is eligible to be selected and retained if the organization is a
nonprofit organization exempt from taxation, has a division in Colorado, and:

(I) Provides Chicana/o youth leadership training;

(II) Promotes and facilitates access to higher education for Chicana/o
students;

(III) Provides Chicana/o youth violence prevention programs;

(IV) Works to increase the cultural, social, political, and economic well-being
of the Chicana/o community; or

(V) Provides ethnic studies educational programs, including those related to
Chicana/o history, institutional racism, and immigration.

(b) An organization chosen to qualify applicants to be issued a license plate
may provide services directly or by acting as a fiscal agent by implementing a grant
program to other organizations that provide services. To qualify for a grant using
money raised under this section, the organization must meet the requirements
established in subsection (3)(a) of this section. To implement this program as a
fiscal agent making grants, the fiscal agent shall not retain or spend more than ten
percent of the money raised under this section on administrative costs.

(c) A person may apply for a Chicana/o 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
subsection (3)(a) of this section confirming that the applicant has made a donation
to the organization. The organization may establish a minimum donation amount to
qualify for the license plate. The organization shall use the donation to support
Latin American communities.

(d) The organization chosen in accordance with subsection (3)(a) of this
section shall file with the department an annual statement verifying that it is a
nonprofit organization.

(4) 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 the fee specified in section
42-3-312 and 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.

(5) An applicant may apply for personalized Chicana/o 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 Chicana/o 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 (5) shall
pay the annual fee imposed by section 42-3-211 (6)(b) for renewal of the
personalized plates. The fees under this subsection (5) are in addition to all other
applicable taxes and fees.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2024: Entire section added, (HB 24-1105), ch. 380, p. 2572, � 1, effective August 7.