H3505: Infrastructure maintenance fee and road use

Legislative Summary

Amend Section 56-3-627, Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, Relating To The Infrastructure Maintenance Fee Assessed Against Vehicles Or Other Items Upon Their First Registration, So As To Provide This Fee Also Applies To The First Titling Of Vehicles, Other Items, Trailers, Or Semitrailers By Owners Or Lessees, To Provide The Department Of Motor Vehicles May Not Issue Titles Until The Fees Have Been Collected, To Provide If Dealers Do Not License, Title, Or Register Items, The Customers Must Pay The Fees To The Department Of Motor Vehicles When Titling Or Registering Vehicles, To Provide If The Lessee Purchases A Vehicle He Originally Leased And The Registrant Of The Vehicle Remains The Same, The Person Does Not Owe An Additional Infrastructure Maintenance Fee, To Provide Items Transferred To An Insurer For The Purpose Of Applying For Salvage Titles Are Excluded From Imposition Of Fees, To Provide Fees Must Be Assessed Against An Owner Or Lessee Who First Titles An Item In Another State And Subsequently Registers The Item In This State, And To Provide The Fees May Not Be Imposed If The Owner Or Lessee Of The Items Is Serving On Active Military Duty; And To Amend Section 56-3-645, Relating To The Road Use Fees Imposed Upon Owners Of Vehicles Not Powered Exclusively By Motor Fuels, So As To Provide The Fees Must Be Collected At The Time Vehicles Are Titled Or Registered. - Ratified Title