SF 87 – Vehicle registration duties of county treasurers
SF 155 – Placement of license plate on dump trucks
FLOOR ACTION:
SF 87 allows a county treasurer to collect delinquent parking fines from a vehicle registration applicant on behalf of the county or certain cities. The bill requires the applicant to remit full payment for the delinquent parking fines, along with a $5 processing fee and the renewal fee, to the county treasurer at the time of registration renewal. A county treasurer collecting on behalf of the county or a city will update the vehicle registration records through the Department of Transportation’s distributed teleprocessing network. The bill strikes language related to payment of computer programming costs incurred by the DOT for collection of delinquent parking fines and replaces that payment with a $5 fee that the county treasurer may collect.
The bill also allows a county treasurer to work with the clerk of the district court to collect delinquent court debt. The county treasurer may lift a hold on vehicle registration if an applicant remits full payment for their delinquent court debt. The county treasurer may also collect a $5 fee for the collection of court debt for deposit in the county general fund. [3/9: 49-0 (McCoy absent)]
SF 155 – Current law requires a rear license plate to be lighted and readable from a distance of 50 feet. This bill excludes intrastate dump trucks or vehicles from that requirement if they are used to move construction materials and equipment to and from construction projects. This will allow the placement of license plates higher up on the rear of these vehicles, where they will not get as dirty and ultimately will be more visible. [3/9: 48-1 (Bisignano “no”; McCoy absent)]