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Michigan Department of State seeks to codify personalized license-plate review process
Summary
The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules heard Department of State testimony to adopt rules that formalize the agency's existing review process for personalized license-plate requests, including an appeal mechanism and ongoing review for changing language.
The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules heard testimony on a proposed rule set (25-57) from the Michigan Department of State that would codify the agency’s current process for reviewing personalized license plate applications, staff said at the committee’s meeting.
The rule package would place in administrative rules the Department of State’s review process — developed with the ACLU after litigation in the mid-2010s — for deciding whether proposed personalized plate messages are acceptable. Department lawyers said the rule mirrors the existing policy and contains no substantive changes.
Erin Shore, presenting for…
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