GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

S	1 

SENATE BILL 146*

Short Title:  Legislature Sets Contract Agent Fee.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Basnight, Daniel, Goldston, Murphy, Plyler, Richardson, Simpson, Smith; and Sherron.
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Referred to:  Transportation.
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February 20, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A METHOD FOR SETTING THE FEES PAID TO CONTRACT AGENTS OF THE DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 20-63(h) reads as rewritten:
"(h)	Commission Contracts for Issuance of Plates and Certificates. – All registration plates, registration certificates and certificates of title issued by the Division, outside of those issued from the Raleigh offices of the said Division and those issued and handled through the United States mail, shall be issued insofar as practicable and possible through commission contracts entered into by the Division for the issuance of such plates and certificates in localities throughout North Carolina with persons, firms, corporations or governmental subdivisions of the State of North Carolina and the Division shall make a reasonable effort in every locality, except as hereinbefore noted, to enter into a commission contract for the issuance of such plates and certificates and a record of these efforts shall be maintained in the Division. In the event the Division is unsuccessful in making commission contracts as hereinbefore set out it shall then issue said plates and certificates through the regular employees of the Division. Whenever registration plates, registration certificates and certificates of title are issued by the Division through commission contract arrangements, the Division shall provide proper supervision of such distribution. Commission contracts entered under this subsection shall provide for the payment of compensation based on a specified rate for each transaction performed under the contract.  The applicable rate and the transactions to which the rate applies shall be set by the General Assembly each year in the Current Operations Appropriations Act.  If the General Assembly does not set a rate or the transactions to which the rate applies for a year, the rate and transactions last set by the General Assembly remain in effect.  Nothing contained in this subsection will allow or permit the operation of fewer outlets in any  county in this State than are now being operated."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1991.