JACKSON - The issuance of more specialty tags will mean extra work for some state Tax Commission employees.
The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill authorizing license plates with emblems of Elvis Presley, the Home of the Blues, Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children, the National Rifle Association, Breast Cancer Awareness and the Professional Hair Designers Inc., among others. The bill must be approved by the House.
Purchasers of specialty tags pay an additional $31 to $51 for the license plates. A portion of the money goes to the state and to fund projects for public and private organizations.
Patsy Holleman, director of motor vehicles for the Tax Commission, said her office works on the design of the tags.
"We also let 82 counties know that there is another new tag," Holleman said. "The counties order everything through us. We make it available."
Holleman said there are currently 150 specialty tags in production. She said a lot more have been approved, but before a tag can be produced, 200 must be sold in advance.
"Some people do it very quickly, and some take a couple of years," Holleman said.
She said some county clerks grouse when they're informed they have to make room for additional tags.
"They have no more room to store them," Holleman said.
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