(a) To enroll a potential participant, a sponsor shall obtain all of the following from the potential participant:
(1) Plate type requested. If the vehicle to which the plate will be assigned is a company vehicle, the sponsor
shall obtain this information. Potential participants who have the fees paid by a donor shall request a sequential plate if the donor pays for six or
more participants;
(2) Fees for the plate type requested. Retaining an existing personalized plate number
when enrolling into a proposed plate program is an issuance of an environmental license plate under Vehicle Code section
5106. The sponsor may
not collect other fees for the vehicle from potential participants;
(3) The potential participant's
identification and vehicle information, including his or her last name, first name and middle initial; registration address of the registered owner,
including number, street, apartment/suite designation, city, state, and ZIP code; residential address including number, street, apartment/suite
designation, city, state, and ZIP code; phone number with area code; e-mail address, if available; current license plate number to be replaced; and
vehicle type that the plate will be assigned to;
(4) The field office selection for in-person plate
pick-up by potential participant;
(5) For personalized plate requests by a potential participant, either
his or her existing personalized plate number, if suitable, or three personalized plate configuration requests, in order of preference, and the
meaning of each as determined by the potential participant. The requested new personalized configuration shall be assigned to the vehicle only if it
is available at the time the plate is produced after the enrollment period concludes and the department is able to produce the requested
plate.
(6) The fee may be collected from a person other than the registered owner of the vehicle for
which the plate is requested if the fee donor provides his or her name, address, and phone number, in addition to the registered owner information
required in this subsection. If a plate donor pays for six or more potential participants in a single program, all of those plates shall be
sequential plates.
(b) The collection of all the information from one potential participant in
subdivision (a) will be considered one application.
(c) The sponsor shall submit monthly reports to the
department for the period in which it enrolls potential participants. Each monthly report shall contain the number of applications collected to date
by plate type.
(d) The sponsor shall comply with the nondisclosure rules of the federal Driver's Privacy
Protection Act, Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2721-2725. A sponsor shall not use any information received from a potential participant for
any purpose other than the purposes authorized by this Article. The information described in this section is confidential department information
obtained by a sponsor for the purpose of enrolling potential participants into a proposed plate program.
(e) The sponsor shall return fees to participants and fee donors if a potential participant cancels an application
before the plate program is approved pursuant to section
161.02.
