From: Graham Wooden (graham@g-rock.net)
Date: Sun Apr 09 2006 - 15:37:11 PDT
Ryan, thanks for updating the list on this matter. As a fellow Georgian, I
am excited as well to see this bill get to the Governor's office for his
signature. I am working on restoring my truck with the proper markings, and
I would hate to keep making 'improper' room for the license plate.
Here is the Bill's legislation page:
http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2005_06/search/sb27.htm
-graham
86 M1009
http://m1009.com/
On 4/7/06 2:38 PM, "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Senate Bill 27 has passed the Georgia House and Senate. It is
> now before the Governor. He has until sometime in May to sign or veto
> the bill. I don't know if he is going to sign it or not.
>
> What does this bill mean? It means that you'll be able to
> legally take the tag off your Military Vehicle, stow it in the glove
> box, in a bag or somewhere out of sight and legally drive with no tag
> displayed. Origninally we wanted to register the numbers of the
> vehicle, however the Department of Transportation was opposed to this
> because they'd have to spend a bunch of money changing the database
> they register vehicles with. So we found a nice middle ground
> compromise.
>
> The Bill passed unopposed through the house and Senate, but
> I'm worried the DOT will play some trick in the Governor's office so
> we need some nice polite requests for the Governor to sign the bill.
>
> The Governor's Office Phone is 404-656-1776. Ask them to ask
> the governor to please sign Senate Bill 27, The Historic Military
> Vehicle Tag bill.
>
> If you have any questions about this, please let me know.
> Call me on my cel (404-545-6205) if you like.
>
> One more thing, in order to garner some extra support, if we
> could have a showing of vehicles for a quick signing ceremony, I'm
> sure that'd help the Senator that pushed the bill through AND will
> show the DOT that the other bills I'm working on have some support.
> Can anyone interested in showing up at the State Capitol let me know?
> I'll try to figure out if we can get a signing ceremony.
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