Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Indiana BMV approves 10 new specialty license plates

INDIANAPOLIS — Animal lovers, soccer players and military families are among those that can now sport their causes on the back bumpers of their automobiles.
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles on Monday announced that it has approved 10 new specialty license plates. Cheap Soccer Jerseys Those plates cost $40 each, with $25 of those dollars going to non-profit organizations associated with the causes represented on the plates.

They’ll be added to Indiana’s list of specialty plates. Hoosiers bought more than 442,000 such plates last year, ac milan jersey not including the “In God We Trust” plates and some military plates that do not provide money for any specific organization.

The groups given the green light this year were selected through an application process that allows not-for-profit organizations with a statewide impact to have their own plates, said R. Scott Waddell, the BMV’s commissioner.

And printing them, he said,
arsenal jersey is much easier now that the state produces plates at a centralized location, instead of keeping a stock of every one of the plates at each license branch.

The Indiana Youth Institute is using its proceeds to help fund a statewide effort that involves nearly 200 mentoring programs.

“A big function of what we do is public relations and getting the word out, england soccer jersey and these license plates serve as traveling billboards for mentoring and recruiting new people to be mentors,” said Bill Stanczykiewicz, the group’s president and chief executive.

Here are all of the new specialty plates and the causes they will support:

* Ducks Unlimited, Inc.: The organization that awarded Gov. spain soccer jersey Mitch Daniels for his wetland conservation efforts earlier this year will use its proceeds to support that cause.

* Indiana Association of Chiefs of Police Foundation: The group says it will use its dollars for education and training programs.

* Indiana Motor Truck Association: frank lampard england jersey The group will promote a safer motoring environment, the BMV said.

* Indiana Patriot Guard Riders: The association will spend its money on care packages for deployed troops.

* Indiana Soccer: Money gained through these plates will support soccer outreach programs across the state.

* Indiana Youth Institute: Youth-based community programs will be the beneficiary.

* Indiana University Health: robben netherlands jersey These plates will support the Methodist Health Foundation.

* Indianapolis Zoological Society, Inc.: Dollars gained through these plates will support the animals’ food stock and medicine.

* Marine Foundation of Indiana, Inc.: This money will support scholarship, the “toys for tots” program and young Marines.

* Tony Stewart Foundation: The organization named after the famous stock car driver will use the money for grants to Indiana non-profit groups.

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