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2012 Kentucky Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (2012)

handle is hein.sag/sagky0039 and id is 1 raw text is: OAG 12-001 January 25, 2012 Effect of 1996 amendments of KRS 186.060 Requested by: Written by: Syllabus: Statute construed: OAG's cited: Representative Hubert Collins 97th District James M. Herrick Assistant Attorney General KRS 186.060(4), as amended in 1996, allows federal, state, and local governmental units to use official license plates on vehicles leased or owned by them; prior opinions to the con- trary are abrogated insofar as they rely on prior statutory language. KRS 186.060 OAG 95-001, OAG 74-456, OAG 73-6 Opinion of the Attorney General KRS 186.060 governs the registration and licensing of official vehicles by federal, state, and local governmental units. Representative Hubert Collins, as Chairman of the House Transportation Committee, has inquired as to whether certain prior Opinions of the Attorney General are still applicable after the 1996 amendments to KRS 186.060. In OAG 95-001, OAG 74-456, and OAG 73-6, it was the opinion of this office that a city, county, state agency, or other unit of government could not use an official license plate on a vehicle which was not owned by that governmental unit. This was due to specific language in KRS 186.060(4) that prohibited the use Subject: