5 Profusion of plates.

• Position: STATELINE - Specialty license plates - Brief article

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With the number of specialty license plates in his state hitting 124, Florida Senator Jeff Brandes (R) decided it was time to act. He filed legislation that would require any group proposing a new plate to "pre-sell" 4,000 of them in a two-year period before they will be manufactured, the StaintPetersBlog reports. The current requirement is 1,000. The measure also would discontinue any existing specialty plate that falls below 4,000 issued in a 12-month period. That...