Bill Text: AZ SB1050 | 2018 | Fifty-third Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Towing companies; abandoned vehicles; fee

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-09 - Senate read second time [SB1050 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2018-SB1050-Introduced.html

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PREFILED    DEC 29 2017

REFERENCE TITLE: towing companies; abandoned vehicles; fee

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-third Legislature

Second Regular Session

2018

 

SB 1050

 

Introduced by

Senator Farnsworth D

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending sections 28-4804 and 28‑4805, Arizona Revised Statutes; repealing section 28-4806, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to abandoned vehicles.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 28-4804, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-4804.  Abandoned vehicle administration monies; deposit

A.  The abandoned vehicle administration fund is established consisting of department may receive monies collected pursuant to section 28‑4802 and all other monies collected pursuant to this chapter for deposit in the state highway fund established by section 28-6991.  The department shall administer the fund.  Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated.  The director shall deposit the monies collected in the state highway fund established by section 28‑6991 except that the monies that are deposited pursuant to section 28‑4805 may not be deposited in the state highway fund and shall be used to partially reimburse registered towing companies pursuant to section 28‑4805.

B.  In addition to the use prescribed in subsection A of this section, The department shall use monies collected pursuant to this chapter to carry out the other duties prescribed by this chapter. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2.  Section 28-4805, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-4805.  Towing company; fee

If a vehicle is abandoned pursuant to section 28‑4802 on national forest, state park, bureau of land management or state trust land and a fee is collected by the department, the towing company that towed the abandoned vehicle off of the land, if still in business, is entitled to receive twenty percent of one hundred dollars from the fee collected as a partial reimbursement of the costs incurred by the towing company. END_STATUTE

Sec. 3.  Repeal

Section 28-4806, Arizona Revised Statutes, is repealed.