SB346: Revises provisions relating to motor vehicles. (BDR 43-458)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing certain acts and transactions to be conducted through an electronic branch office established by the Department of Motor Vehicles; revising requirements relating to certificates of registration and certificates of title of a vehicle; eliminating certain limitations on the persons authorized to participate in a program established by the Department for the electronic submission and storage of documents; requiring the Department to design, prepare and issue special license plates for all vehicles that are wholly powered by an electric motor and reducing the fees for those special license plates; authorizing the use of electronic signatures and stamps for recording certain information for certain transactions; prohibiting a person from driving an autocycle upon a highway unless that person holds a driver's license; exempting the driver and passengers of an autocycle from the requirement to wear protective headgear; revising requirements for a person to be appointed to issue salvage titles on behalf of the Department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.