GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 175

Short Title:  GPAC-Close Some DMV Offices.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Martin of Guilford.
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Referred to:  Government Performance Audit.
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February 16, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE TO CLOSE DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES FIELD OFFICES THAT PROCESS FEWER THAN THE STATE AVERAGE OF DRIVERS LICENSE APPLICATIONS AND TO INCREASE OVERALL PRODUCTIVITY OF THE REMAINING OFFICES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The General Assembly finds that the actual work load performed by the Division of Motor Vehicles field offices varies substantially from location to location.  An analysis of Division of Motor Vehicles activity reports indicates that the average number of drivers license applications processed per person per day is 24, but that forty-six percent (46%) of the offices process significantly fewer applications than the average, and many of the field offices are located within close proximity of each other and serve common communities.  These closures would result in a Division of Motor Vehicles field office being within 15 miles of every driver, except those who now drive longer distances to reach a field office.
Sec. 2.  The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall submit to the General Assembly, on or before September 1, 1993, a plan to close the Division of Motor Vehicles field offices that process fewer than the State average of drivers licenses per day, on or before June 30, 1995, and to increase the overall productivity of the remaining field offices by ten percent (10%).
Sec. 3.  The base budget of the Division of Motor Vehicles, Department of Transportation, is reduced by one million three hundred ninety-eight thousand eight hundred sixty dollars ($1,398,860) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and by one million eight hundred fifty-five thousand ten dollars ($1,855,010) for the 1994-95 fiscal year due to the closing of the Division of Motor Vehicles field offices and attendant reduction in personnel positions mandated by Section 2 of this act.
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.