Bill Text: WV SB460 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Replacing 48-hour stickers with 60-day registration plates

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-28 - To Transportation and Infrastructure [SB460 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2017-SB460-Introduced.html

FISCAL NOTEWEST virginia legislature

2017 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 460

By Senators Boley and Blair

[Introduced February 28, 2017; Referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; and then to the Committee on Finance]

A BILL to amend and reenact §17A-7-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating generally to the registration of motor vehicles; replacing the issuance of 48-hour stickers with the issuance of temporary sixty-day registrations plates; requiring a $25 fee to be collected; and designating the fund where the moneys from that fee are to be deposited.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:


That §17A-7-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 7. SPECIAL STICKERS.


§17A-7-2.  Operation of motor vehicles by dealers or other persons under special stickers temporary registration; application and fees; expiration.


(a) A member Employees of the West Virginia State Police may at any detachment office issue or cause to be issued, upon application therefor on a form prescribed by the commissioner, to a licensed dealer or any other person other than those specified in section one of this article, a paper sticker or decal to be affixed to the left side of the rear window of a motor vehicle or to the left rear of a vehicle which is not self-propelled temporary registration plate. Such sticker or decal temporary registration plate shall be of a size designated by the commissioner and shall be serially numbered and shall have provision thereon to indicate the date of issuance thereof.

(b) A fee of $5 $25 per sticker temporary registration plate shall be collected and dispersed as follows; two dollars and fifty cents shall be deposited in the State Road Fund and two dollars and fifty cents shall be deposited in the special revenue account within the Division of Highways for the maintenance of the West Virginia Welcome Centers and rest areas along interstate highways in this state deposited in a reappropriating special revenue account as outlined under subsection (e), section three, article two, chapter fifteen of this code.

(c) Such sticker or decal temporary registration plate shall be valid for forty-eight hours sixty days after its issuance for the operation of a vehicle, whether under its own power or while being towed., one time only over the streets or highways, and upon being once affixed to a vehicle shall become invalid for subsequent use on that or any other vehicle.

(d) The method of issuance shall be in accordance with internal management rules pertaining thereto promulgated by the superintendent under authority of section twenty-five, article two, chapter fifteen of this code.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to replace the issuance of forty-eight-hour “stickers” with the issuance of temporary sixty-day registrations plates. The bill requires a $25 fee to be collected. The bill designates the fund where the moneys from that fee are to be deposited.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.

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