Bill Text: NC S603 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Clarify Issuance of Plates/Certificates Law.-AB
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-12 - Ch. SL 2013-87 [S603 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2013-S603-Chaptered.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2013
SESSION LAW 2013-87
SENATE BILL 603
AN ACT to clarify that registration plates, registration certificates, and certificates of titles can be issued directly by the division of motor vehicles offices located in the counties of wake, cumberland, and mecklenburg.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20‑63(h) reads as rewritten:
"(h) Commission
Contracts for Issuance of Plates and Certificates. – All registration plates,
registration certificates, and certificates of title issued by the Division,
outside of those issued from the Charlotte, Fort Bragg and Raleigh officesoffice
of the Division located in Wake, Cumberland, or Mecklenburg Counties and
those issued and handled through the United States mail, shall be issued
insofar as practicable and possible through commission contracts entered into
by the Division for the issuance of the plates and certificates in localities
throughout North Carolina, including military installations within this State,
with persons, firms, corporations or governmental subdivisions of the State of
North Carolina. The Division shall make a reasonable effort in every locality,
except as noted above, to enter into a commission contract for the issuance of
the plates and certificates and a record of these efforts shall be maintained
in the Division. In the event the Division is unsuccessful in making commission
contracts, it shall issue the plates and certificates through the regular
employees of the Division. Whenever registration plates, registration
certificates, and certificates of title are issued by the Division through
commission contract arrangements, the Division shall provide proper supervision
of the distribution. Nothing contained in this subsection will allow or permit
the operation of fewer outlets in any county in this State than are now being
operated.
Commission contracts entered into by the Division under this subsection shall provide for the payment of compensation on a per transaction basis. The collection of the highway use tax shall be considered a separate transaction for which one dollar and twenty‑seven cents ($1.27) compensation shall be paid. The performance at the same time of one or more of the remaining transactions listed in this subsection shall be considered a single transaction for which one dollar and forty‑three cents ($1.43) compensation shall be paid.
A transaction is any of the following activities:
(1) Issuance of a registration plate, a registration card issued without collection of property taxes or fees under G.S. 105‑330.5, a registration renewal sticker, or a certificate of title.
(2) Issuance of a handicapped placard or handicapped identification card.
(3) Acceptance of an application for a personalized registration plate.
(4) Acceptance of a surrendered registration plate, registration card, or registration renewal sticker, or acceptance of an affidavit stating why a person cannot surrender a registration plate, registration card, or registration renewal sticker.
(5) Cancellation of a title because the vehicle has been junked.
(6) Acceptance of an application for, or issuance of, a refund for a fee or a tax, other than the highway use tax.
(7) Receipt of the civil penalty imposed by G.S. 20‑311 for a lapse in financial responsibility or receipt of the restoration fee imposed by that statute.
(8) Acceptance of a notice of failure to maintain financial responsibility for a motor vehicle.
(8a) Collection of civil penalties imposed for violations of G.S. 20‑183.8A.
(8b) Sale of one or more inspection stickers in a single transaction to a licensed inspection station.
(9) Collection of the highway use tax.
(10) Acceptance of a temporary lien filing."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2013.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of June, 2013.
s/ Daniel J. Forest
President of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Pat McCrory
Governor
Approved 4:27 p.m. this 12th day of June, 2013
