California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 8 - Special Plates

• Section 5000.
  (a) Identification plates issued for trailers, semitrailers, motor-driven cycles, and pole and pipe dollies, and such vehicles as are exempt from the payment of registration fees...
• Section 5001.
  The department may issue license plates for vehicles exempt from registration fees in the same series as plates issued for nonexempt vehicles. The plates may...
• Section 5001.5.
  The director may enter into agreements or arrangements with motor vehicle departments in other states to provide for a reciprocal exchange of regular series license...
• Section 5002.
  The department may issue regular series plates to the Department of General Services for use on motor vehicles maintained within motor vehicle pools of state-owned...
• Section 5002.5.
  The department shall issue regular series license plates for any motor vehicle owned by, or in the possession and use of, the Senate or Assembly,...
• Section 5002.6.
  (a) The Chancellor or a president of a campus of the California State University, or the president or a chancellor of a campus of the University...
• Section 5002.7.
  (a) For a county of over 20,000 square miles in area, a member of the county board of supervisors, or a county assessor, auditor, controller, treasurer,...
• Section 5002.8.
  (a) (1) Distinctive license plates issued for a motor vehicle owned by a current or retired Member of the California Legislature, which plates denote that the person...
• Section 5003.
  The department shall maintain a record of the registration of exempt vehicles with regular series plates, which record shall not be open to public inspection....
• Section 5004.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any owner of a vehicle described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) which is operated or moved over...
• Section 5004.1.
  (a) (1) An owner of a vehicle that is a 1980 or older model-year vehicle may, after the requirements for the registration of the vehicle are complied...
• Section 5004.3.
  (a) Subject to subdivision (d), the department shall establish the California Legacy License Plate Program and create and issue a series of specialized license plates known...
• Section 5004.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any owner of a motorcycle manufactured in the year 1942 or prior thereto shall, upon application in the...
• Section 5005.
  (a) Any person holding an unexpired amateur radio station license issued by the Federal Communications Commission may, after the requirements for the registration of the motor...
• Section 5006.
  (a) The department may issue distinctive license plates for motor vehicles owned or leased by an honorary consular officer or a similar official when the department...
• Section 5006.5.
  (a) The department may issue, for a fee determined by the department to be sufficient to reimburse the department for actual costs incurred pursuant to this...
• Section 5007.
  (a) The department shall, upon application and without additional fees, issue a special license plate or plates pursuant to procedures adopted by the department to all...
• Section 5007.5.
  (a) Upon a receipt of request for information by a local law enforcement agency or local or state agency responsible for the administration or enforcement of...
• Section 5008.
  (a) Any person who is regularly employed or engaged as a bona fide newspaper, newsreel, or television photographer or cameraman, may, after the requirements for the...
• Section 5010.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, when a motor vehicle which is leased to a school district for use as a schoolbus, as defined...
• Section 5011.
  Every piece of special construction equipment, special mobile equipment, cemetery equipment, trailer, semitrailer, and every logging vehicle shall display an identification plate issued pursuant to...
• Section 5014.
  An application by a person other than a manufacturer or dealer for an identification plate for special construction equipment, cemetery equipment, special mobile equipment, logging...
• Section 5014.1.
  (a) Upon the implementation of the permanent trailer identification plate program, the following applies:(1) All trailers, except in cases where the registrant has elected to apply for...
• Section 5015.
  (a) The application for an identification plate for special construction equipment, special mobile equipment, cemetery equipment, and any logging vehicle shall be made before that piece...
• Section 5016.
  Upon proper application and payment of the fees specified in Section 5014.1 or 9261, the department shall issue an identification plate and an identification certificate...
• Section 5016.5.
  (a) The department may issue a special identification plate or other suitable device to a manufacturer or dealer of special construction equipment, special mobile equipment, cemetery...
• Section 5017.
  (a) Each identification plate issued under Section 5016 shall bear a distinctive number to identify the equipment, logging vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, or implement of husbandry for...
• Section 5018.
  Whenever the ownership of equipment, a logging vehicle, or an implement of husbandry is transferred, the transferee shall within 10 days thereafter make application to...
• Section 5019.
  The authorizations for the issuance of special license plates referred to in Sections 5005 and 5008 do not apply to trailers.(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch....
• Section 5020.
  Any person holding an unexpired license for a class D radio station in the Citizens Radio Service issued by the Federal Communications Commission may, at...
• Section 5021.
  After the requirements for the registration of the vehicle have been complied with, the department shall issue such plates in lieu of the regular license...
• Section 5022.
  (a) Until December 31, 1984, a person described in Section 5101 may also apply for a set of commemorative 1984 Olympic reflectorized license plates and the...
• Section 5023.
  (a) (1) Until December 31, 2013, a person described in Section 5101 may also apply for a set of commemorative Olympic reflectorized license plates and the department...
• Section 5024.
  (a) A person described in Section 5101 may also apply for a set of commemorative collegiate reflectorized license plates, and the department shall issue those special...

Last modified: October 22, 2018