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
WEST 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.
