798 Applications as of 17-Apr-06
(From Georgia Bikes!) -- The Georgia SHARE THE ROAD specialty license plate is really going to happen... once the state receives at least 1,000 applications of $25 each in 2006. So lets make it quick and fun. Lets turn it into a race. The challenge is a friendly, unofficial, competition with the new NASCAR plates to be the first to the 1,000 point line.
On Tuesday, January 3, go to the local “tag office” in your county of residence. Take your identification and $25 directly to the counter staff asking to apply for the Georgia SHARE THE ROAD specialty license plate. Be sure to get and save your receipt. Once there are at least 1,000 applications (hopefully we will have won the race with NASCAR), the state will begin manufacturing the plates and distributing them to those county tag offices where applications were submitted. You will can get your tag on your normal renewal date; or you have the option of getting the plate early for an additional $25. The standard fees will be a one-time, $25, plate manufacturing fee (which will be credited if you provide your application fee receipt) and the annual, $25, specialty license plate fee. You are still responsible for your standard, annual, $20, registration fee and any of your applicable ad valorem taxes.
Note that ALL of the $25, annual, SHARE THE ROAD specialty license plate fee is intended to go to the Governor's Office Of Highway Safety (pending the state's yearly general appropriations process) for use in motorist and cyclist safety, education, and awareness projects and programs. Note also that $14.75 of the NASCAR plates annual $25 fee will go to the Governor's Office Of Highway Safety. Note too that the $25 application fee will be refundable in the unlikely event that 1,000 are not received by the end of 2007.
