Scout license plates in Illinois (Eagle or Gold Award only)

[fgoodwin]

New badge of honor for top Scouts

 

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/419791,6_1_NA08_GOVWATCH_S1.article

http://tinyurl.com/2p3c9v

 

June 8, 2007

 

Boy Scout and Girl Scout commemorative license plates now will be distributed by the Illinois Secretary of State, under a bill sponsored by Sen. Kirk Dillard, R-Hinsdale, and passed by the Senate last week.

 

Of the $40 fee charged for the Scout vanity plates, $25 will go to the Boy Scouts of America and Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. fund.

 

The legislation requires Scouts who have earned either the Eagle Scout Award or the Gold Award to provide written proof to the Secretary of State's office before they can be issued a special plate.

 

-- Paige Winfield

[John-in-KC]

That's nothing.

 

The Great State of Missouri has FOUR Scouting License Plates:

 

- Eagle Scout

 

- Order of the Arrow

 

- Tribe of Mic-o-Say ... Geiger Scout Reservation (Pony Express Council)

 

- Tribe of Mic-o-Say ... H Roe Bartle Scout Reservation (Heart of America Council)

 

Online forms here:

http://www.dor.mo.gov/mvdl/motorv/plates/

 

What does YOUR state have ??? (This message has been edited by John-in-KC)

[Trevorum]

In Texas, the extra fees for a BSA license plate do not go to BSA but to a third party youth fund. As a result, few Scouters choose to purchse the plates. I have no idea why this is - Fred do you know?

[fgoodwin]

Nick, I don't know why the money for TX plates doesn't go to Scouting. I wish it did, as is the case with the IL plates.

[resqman]

North Carolina has the opporutunity to purchase an Eagle Scout license plate. There is a form you fill out certifing that you are an Eagle or the parent of an Eagle scout. The fee is $10 above the normal cost of a plate if the state chooses the number letter combination and $40 above the normal cost of a plate if you choose the 4 letter/number combination.

 

The money is put into the a fund managed by the state. According to their website, the money is spent on highway vistors centers, highway beautification, and handicap accessibility promotion. No money goes to the scouts. Consider it community service.

 

Quote from the state website below:

Distribution of funds in the Special Registration Plate Account (SRPA):

 

Cost of the special plates including the administration of the special plate program;

 

$525,000.00 annually for the operation of Visitor Centers in Camden, Brunswick, Macon, Watauga, Caswell, Carteret and Tyrrell counties.

 

Remaining funds transferred quarterly as follows:

 

33% to Department of Commerce to aid in financing out-of-state advertising for the promotion of travel and industrial development;

 

50% to the Department of Transportation for beautification of highways;

 

17% to the Department of Health and Human Services to promote travel accessibility for disabled persons.

 

[scoutldr]

In Virginia, groups interested in getting special plates must collect a minimum of 350 prepaid applications before a plate will be produced. A group has been trying for years to get a "BSA" plate, but cannot raise the required number of commitments.

 

Sad, that we can get plates for "Tobacco Heritage" and "Parrotheads"...but not Scouting.

[jr56]

Great idea, wish Wisconsin had a Scouting plate.

[scoutldr]

http://www.angelfire.com/wy/gilwell/plates.html