Section 18-425. TRANSFER OF PERSONALIZED IDENTIFICATION TAGS

 

425.1Personalized tags may be transferred to a transferee of a motor vehicle at any time upon payment by the transferee of the twenty-five dollars ($ 25.00) reservation fee and all other fees required by law in the following circumstances:

 

(a)Where a motor vehicle is registered in the name of a husband or wife, one of whom died leaving a will providing that the vehicle be deeded over to the surviving spouse;

 

(b)Where a joint ownership in a motor vehicle exists and ownership of the vehicle is transferred from both owners to either owner; and

 

(c)Where ownership of a motor vehicle in one or more persons is modified so that a joint ownership is created between the original owner or owners and an additional owner or owners.

 

425.2Personalized tags may be transferred at any time without payment of the twenty-five dollars ($ 25.00) reservation fee, upon payment by the transferee of a two dollars ($ 2.00) transfer fee and all other fees required by law, in the following circumstances:

 

(a)Where one party of a joint ownership in a motor vehicle dies and the surviving owner assumes ownership of the vehicle; and

 

(b)Where one spouse transfers ownership to both spouses jointly.

 

425.3Personalized tags on leased vehicles may be transferred by the owner of such tags from one motor vehicle to another at any time in the following circumstances:

 

(a)Where a person owns personalized tags for use on a leased vehicle and leases a replacement vehicle provided that the owner-lessee remains the same person, corporation, or other entity. In such cases a transfer fee of two dollars ($ 2.00) and any other fee required by law shall be paid by the lessee, but no reservation fee shall be required; and

 

(b)Where a person leases a replacement vehicle from a lessor different from the lessor-owner who owned the vehicle from which such tags are to be transferred. In such cases, the twenty-five dollars ($ 25.00) reservation fee shall be paid in addition to all other fees required by law.

 

425.4In all other cases not described in this section, transfer of personalized tags may take place only by an assignment under the provisions of § 424.