Bill Text: IN HB1243 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Registration fee for electric cars.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-12 - First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation [HB1243 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2011-HB1243-Introduced.html
Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1243
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 9-29-17.
Synopsis: Registration fee for electric cars. Imposes an annual electric
motor vehicle highway maintenance fee of $100 on each electric motor
vehicle registered in Indiana.
Effective: January 1, 2012.
Friend, Dodge, Grubb
January 12, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.
Introduced
First Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2011)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1243
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
motor vehicles.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
SOURCE: IC 9-29-17; (11)IN1243.1.1. -->
SECTION 1. IC 9-29-17 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS
A NEW CHAPTER TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
JANUARY 1, 2012]:
Chapter 17. Electric Motor Vehicle Highway Maintenance Fee
Sec. 1. This chapter applies to registration years beginning after December 31, 2011.
Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "electric motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle subject to registration under IC 9-18 that is primarily powered by an electric motor that draws current from rechargeable storage batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaic arrays, or other sources of electric current. The term includes a motor vehicle equipped with a gasoline powered motor that:
(1) is used to generate electric current to supplement the electric current from a rechargeable storage battery, fuel cell, photovoltaic array, or other source; but
(2) is not capable of applying power to the motor vehicle's drive wheels.
Sec. 3. There is imposed an annual electric motor vehicle highway maintenance fee of one hundred dollars ($100) upon each electric motor vehicle registered in Indiana.
Sec. 4. The bureau shall collect the fee imposed by section 3 of this chapter at the time that the bureau collects the regular registration fee imposed on the electric motor vehicle under IC 9-18.
Sec. 5. Fees collected under this chapter must be deposited in the motor vehicle highway account under IC 8-14-1.
Chapter 17. Electric Motor Vehicle Highway Maintenance Fee
Sec. 1. This chapter applies to registration years beginning after December 31, 2011.
Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "electric motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle subject to registration under IC 9-18 that is primarily powered by an electric motor that draws current from rechargeable storage batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaic arrays, or other sources of electric current. The term includes a motor vehicle equipped with a gasoline powered motor that:
(1) is used to generate electric current to supplement the electric current from a rechargeable storage battery, fuel cell, photovoltaic array, or other source; but
(2) is not capable of applying power to the motor vehicle's drive wheels.
Sec. 3. There is imposed an annual electric motor vehicle highway maintenance fee of one hundred dollars ($100) upon each electric motor vehicle registered in Indiana.
Sec. 4. The bureau shall collect the fee imposed by section 3 of this chapter at the time that the bureau collects the regular registration fee imposed on the electric motor vehicle under IC 9-18.
Sec. 5. Fees collected under this chapter must be deposited in the motor vehicle highway account under IC 8-14-1.
