SEMA Bill introduced in Ohio

Ohio Committee to review Hot Rod Bill

 

The Ohio legislature has introduced SEMA-model legislation to allow Street Rods and Replicas to be granted special titling and licensing privileges.   Ohio’s Infrastructure Committee will be reviewing the possibility of approving and forwarding this common sense bill onto the Senate.
 

 

We’re calling on all Ohio FFROGs to contact the members of the Infrastructure Committee to get this bill approved.  To make it easier on you, the good folks at SEMA have already compiled the Committee members, their numbers and email addresses to simplify your activity in state politics.

 

The press release from the Specialty Equipment Marketing Alliance (SEMA) reads:
 

January 2008

 

Pro-Industry Bill to recognize Street Rods & Custom Vehicles introduced in Ohio

SEMA model legislation (H.B. 391) that would create a vehicle registration and titling classification for street rods and custom vehicles and provide for special license plates for these vehicles will be considered by the Ohio Infrastructure, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs Committee.
 
Introduced by State Representatives John Hagan (district50@ohr.state.oh.us) and Kenny Yuko (district07@ohr.state.oh.us), H.B. 391 defines a street rod as an altered vehicle manufactured before 1949 and a custom as an altered vehicle at least 25 years old and manufactured after 1948.

The bill allows kit cars and replica vehicles to be assigned a certificate of title bearing the same model year designation the body of the vehicle most closely resembles. 

 

We Urge You to Contact All Members of the Infrastructure, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs Committee (List Attached Below) Immediately to Request Their Support for H.B. 391

●  H.B. 391 provides specific registration/titling classes and license plates for street rods and customs.

●  H.B. 391 includes street rods and customs (including replicas) in the historical motor vehicle definition for the purpose of holding these vehicles only to the equipment standards specified by law during the model year listed on the title of the vehicle.

●  H.B. 391 provides that a replica vehicle can be assigned the same model year designation as the production vehicle it most closely resembles.

●  H.B. 391 permits street rods and custom vehicles to display blue dot taillights.
 

Please e-mail a copy of your letters to Steve McDonald at stevem@sema.org