Bill Text: VA SB215 | 2022 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Electronic vehicle titling and registration; permits DMV to expand existing program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) [SB215 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2022-SB215-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §46.2-603.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§46.2-603.1. Electronic titling and registration program.
TheA. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
chapter, the Department may establish an electronic titling program for any
"new motor vehicle" as that term is defined in §46.2-1500.
Participants in the electronic titling program shall submit electronic applications
for original motor vehicle titles in a form and format prescribed by the
Department. Participants must provide all documentation or information required
by the Department to process the electronic title application, including an
electronic information from a manufacturer's certificate of origin
or certificate of ownership and any information required by the Department
in accordance with §46.2-623. The records of a nationally recognized motor
vehicle title database shall may be searched prior to transfer of
vehicle ownership. Participants shall collect from the purchaser of the new
motor vehicle any fee charged for the search of the nationally recognized motor
vehicle title database. The Department may impose a reasonable service
fee in accordance with fair market prices for the use of digital signature
services as part of this program. Such fees shall be used to defray the costs
of the transaction to the Department. Any transaction fees imposed and
collected by the Department shall be paid into the state treasury and set aside
as a special fund to be used to meet the expenses of the Department. Upon
receipt of a completed electronic application, the Department shall refrain
from issuing a certificate of title in paper form and, instead, shall create
only the electronic record of such title to be retained by the Department in
its existing electronic title record system with a notation that no certificate
of title has been printed on paper. The owner of a motor vehicle will be deemed
to have obtained and the Department will be deemed to have issued a certificate
of title when such title record has been created electronically as provided in
this section. An owner listed on a title record so created may at any time
request and the Department shall provide a paper certificate of title for the
vehicle.
B. Upon receipt of a completed electronic application, the Department shall permit the online registration of a motor vehicle by participants, and is hereby authorized to issue a temporary certificate of registration to participants. The temporary certificate of registration issued by the Department to participants shall expire when the permanent license plates have been affixed to the motor vehicle, but in no event shall any temporary certificate of registration issued under this section be effective for more than 30 days from the date of its issuance.