SB667: relative to the maximum optional fee for transportation improvements charged by municipalities when collecting motor vehicle registration fees.

SB 667-LOCAL - AS INTRODUCED

2020 SESSION

20-3054

05/04

SENATE BILL 667-LOCAL

AN ACT relative to the maximum optional fee for transportation improvements charged by municipalities when collecting motor vehicle registration fees.

SPONSORS: Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Rep. Cahill, Rock. 17; Rep. Vann, Hills. 24

COMMITTEE: Election Law and Municipal Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill increases the maximum optional fee for transportation improvements that may be

charged by municipalities when collecting motor vehicle registration fees.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-3054

05/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

AN ACT relative to the maximum optional fee for transportation improvements charged by municipalities when collecting motor vehicle registration fees.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Municipal Permit Fees; Municipal and Transportation Improvement Fund; Maximum Fee. Amend RSA 261:153, VI(b) to read as follows:

(b) The maximum fee charged under this paragraph shall be [$5] $10. The municipality shall establish the required fee, up to the maximum amount allowable, based on anticipated funding needs for transportation improvements. The additional fee shall be collected from all vehicles, both passenger and commercial, with the exception of all terrain vehicles as defined in RSA 215-A:1, I-b and antique motor vehicles or motorcycles, as defined in RSA 259:4.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.