1. A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, each motor license agent appointed after July 1, 1988, within a specific municipality shall be furnished a camera by the Department of Public Safety without charge if, based upon the number of driver's licenses issued during the preceding year, the total number of licenses issued shall average not less than one thousand two hundred (1,200) per year per camera within the municipality and not less than one thousand two hundred (1,200) per year per camera within the county; provided, each county shall have at least one motor license agent who shall be furnished a camera without charge.
2. B. Any motor license agent who has been furnished a camera without charge prior to July 1, 1988, shall continue to have such camera furnished without charge until a new motor license agent is appointed.
3. C. A motor license agent appointed after July 1, 1988, who is not entitled to be furnished a camera pursuant to the provisions of subsection A of this section may be furnished a camera upon signing an agreement with the Department of Public Safety to process a minimum of one thousand two hundred (1,200) licenses per year or to pay the Department the sum of fifty cents ($0.50) for each license under one thousand two hundred (1,200) issued per year. For agreements entered into prior to the effective date of this act under which the payment was calculated based upon the difference between the number of licenses issued and three thousand (3,000), the payment shall be recalculated based upon the difference between the number of licenses issued and one thousand two hundred (1,200). The amount of the difference between the recalculated payment and any payment actually made by a motor license agent prior to the effective date of this act shall be refunded to the motor license agent.
4. D. For the purposes of this section, each motor license agent appointed after July 1, 1988, shall be considered a new agent, whether assets of another agency were inherited, purchased or otherwise acquired.
5. E. The furnishing of any camera shall be subject to availability from the vendor and, if limited, shall be allocated by priority according to subsections A, B and C of this section, in that order.

Laws 1988, HB 1579, c. 290, § 24, emerg. eff. July 1, 1988; Amended by Laws 1991, SB 346, c. 342, § 6, emerg. eff. June 15, 1991.