Section 41-22-126 - Purchase of license plates(a) The department of revenue is authorized and directed to contract for and purchase from the TRICOR board the requirements of the state for automobile number plates, to be paid for as if purchased from an individual dealer.(b) The controlling feature in making such contracts shall be reasonable returns to the institution manufacturing the goods and a saving to the state in supplying the plates.Acts 1923, ch. 94, § 3; Shan. Supp., § 7581a28; mod. Code 1932, § 12209; impl. am. Acts 1955, ch. 102, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 14; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-429; Acts 1994, ch. 737, § 21; 1996, ch. 564, § 2.