(1) Upon approval of an organization's application to sponsor a generic specialty license plate and before a sponsor's generic specialty license plates may be manufactured, the department shall assess and the sponsor shall pay a $4,000 fee to the department of corrections Montana correctional enterprises prison industries training program enterprise fund. The fee covers the initial costs incurred by Montana correctional enterprises in producing the generic specialty license plates for the sponsor.
(2) The fee imposed in subsection (1) must be deposited in the Montana correctional enterprises license plate production operating account provided for in 53-30-134.