1. Any male applicant who applies for a driver’s license instruction permit or license or renewal of any such permit or license and who is at least eighteen years of age but less than twenty-six years of age shall also be allowed to register in compliance with the requirements of Section 3 of the Military Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C. App. Section 453, as amended. The application shall provide appropriate space for completion by the applicant to indicate his desire to register with the Selective Service.

2. If the applicant indicates his desire to register with the Selective Service by completing the appropriate section of the application as described in subsection 1 of this section, the department of revenue shall forward in an electronic format the necessary personal information of such applicants to the Selective Service system. The applicant’s signature on the application and completion of the appropriate section of the application shall serve as an indication that the applicant is authorizing the department to forward to the Selective Service system the necessary information for such registration. The department shall notify the applicant at the time of application that the applicant’s signature constitutes consent to registration with the Selective Service system, if the applicant is not already registered.

3. The provisions of this section shall become effective July 1, 2003.