55-4-320 - Shriners. - Tennessee Statutes

55-4-320. Shriners.

(a)  Owners or lessees of motor vehicles who are residents of this state, upon complying with state motor vehicle laws relating to registration and licensing of motor vehicles and paying the regular fee applicable to the motor vehicle and the fee provided for in § 55-4-203, shall be issued a Shriners new specialty earmarked license plate for a motor vehicle authorized by § 55-4-210(c).

(b)  The new specialty earmarked license plates shall contain a logo or other design representative of the Shriners of North America international fraternity. The plates shall be designed in consultation with a representative of the Shriners of Tennessee.

(c)  Funds produced from the sale of Shriners new specialty earmarked license plates shall be allocated to the Shriners Hospitals for Children in accordance with § 55-4-215. The funds shall be utilized by the Shriners Hospitals for Children, a network of pediatric specialty hospitals, to further the organization's mission of providing excellent orthopaedic, burn and spinal cord injury care to children under eighteen (18) years of age absolutely free of charge.

(d)  Section 55-4-201(f) shall not apply to the Shriner plates authorized by this section.

[Acts 2008, ch. 1165, § 63.]