Licenses: Automated License Data System.

Existing law generally prohibits a person from obtaining more than one license, permit, reservation, or other entitlement of the same class, or more than the number of tags authorized by statute or regulation for the same license year, but provides for multiple entitlements under specified circumstances, including a replacement in case of the loss or destruction of an unexpired entitlement as certified by the applicant's signed affidavit and proof, as determined by the department, that the original license, tag, permit, reservation, or other entitlement was issued, and payment of a base fee of $5, adjusted annually pursuant to a specified index. This bill would exempt entitlements issued through the Automated License Data System from those provisions, and, instead, for those entitlements, would generally prohibit a person from obtaining more than one entitlement of the same class, or more than the number of tags authorized by statute or regulation for the same license year, but would provide for multiple entitlements under specified circumstances, including the replacement of the entitlements in case of the loss or destruction of an unexpired entitlement as certified by the applicant's signed affidavit and proof, as determined by the department, that the original entitlement was issued, and payment of a $5 base fee, or in case of the loss or destruction of a stamp or endorsement imprinted on a base license and payment of a base fee of $3 for each stamp or endorsement replaced on any base license document. Those fees would be adjusted annually pursuant to the specified index, based on license years established in the bill, not to exceed the fee for the original entitlement.