{"id":677,"date":"2010-05-27T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T10:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2010-05-27T10:17:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T10:17:50","slug":"personalised-registration-plates-raise-serious-money-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/personalised-registration-plates-raise-serious-money-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalised Registration Plates Raise Serious Money For Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>Right now there are more than 170 plates, including one from each of  the state&#8217;s colleges and nearly 20 that represent the military.\u00a0\u00a0Plus,  the plates generate some serious revenue for the state and the various  organizations they represent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see the plate I just think of the times and uh in Vietnam and what we done  and you know how that come about,\u201d said Vietnam Veteran John Relford.<\/p>\n<p>Of the $30 you pay for a specialty  tag, state colleges like ECU get $15. For every &#8220;Save the Sea  Turtle&#8221; plate $10 goes to the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation  Center.<\/p>\n<p>If applicable, the second line underneath the  model license plate will say \u201c$ (amount) is returned to (selected  organization)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Money from specialized plates is broken down into four categories:  \u00a0The Natural  Heritage Trust Fund for protecting land, The Parks  and Recreation Trust Fund for grants to local government, The  Collegiate and Cultural Attraction Account, and the Special Registration  Plate Account. While other amounts vary, $10 from the sale of every  plate is put into this account. It alone contributes about $1-million a year for visitor  centers in Camden, Brunswick, Macon,  Watauga, Caswell, Carteret, Tyrell, Transylvania, Columbus and McDowell counties &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe monies go back to the highways for beautification,\u201d said Kay Hatcher, Supervisor of Special Number Plate Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now there are more than 170 plates, including one from each of the state&#8217;s colleges and nearly 20 that represent the military.\u00a0\u00a0Plus, the plates generate some serious revenue for the state and the various organizations they represent. \u201cWhen I<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/personalised-registration-plates-raise-serious-money-for-charity\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}