1. (A) Except as otherwise provided, a certificate of number awarded pursuant to this chapter continues in effect for three years unless sooner terminated or discontinued in accordance with this chapter. Certificates of number may be renewed by the owner in the same manner provided for in the initial securing of the certificates. The department shall fix a day and month of the year on which certificates of number expire unless renewed pursuant to this chapter.

2. (B) A renewal application for a certificate of number, except those from marine dealers, presented after thirty days from its expiration date is subject to a late penalty of fifteen dollars.

   A renewal application for a certificate of number presented after sixty days from its expiration date is subject to a late penalty of thirty dollars.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 70-295.27; 1955 (49) 299; 1959 (51) 409; 1993 Act No. 128, Section 6; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1269; 1999 Act No. 100, Part II, Section 64.C; 2008 Act No. 344, Section 26, eff six months after approval (approved June 11, 2008).

Editor's Note

1999 Act No. 124, Section 2.T, provided for the transfer of the sections from Article 3, Chapter 21 where this section was numbered Section 50-21-370.

Effect of Amendment

The 2008 amendment, in subsection (A), in the third sentence deleted "due to" preceding "expire" and "during the calendar year lapse and are not in effect" preceding "unless renewed"; deleted subsection (B) relating to issuance of a certificate of number for demonstration and testing purposes; redesignated subsection (C) as subsection (B); and, in subsection (D), deleted the subsection designation and the first two sentences, and made the third sentence an undesignated paragraph under subsection (B).