GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 179

Short Title:  GPAC-Privatize Registration 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 PRIVATIZE THE RALEIGH AND CHARLOTTE STATE-RUN VEHICLE REGISTRATION OFFICES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The General Assembly finds that it costs approximately two dollars and twenty-six cents ($2.26) more to process a transaction in a State-run motor vehicle registration office than in a contract office.  When the "variable costs" of the operations, including salaries, benefits, rent, and utilities for State-operated offices and branch agency fees, field supervisors' salaries, and travel for contract offices, were compared, the two dollars and twenty-six cents ($2.26) difference was determined.
Sec. 2.  The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall submit a plan to the General Assembly, on or before August 1, 1993, for the privatization of the State-operated vehicle registration offices in Raleigh and Charlotte to reduce costs and improve productivity.
Sec. 3.  The base budget of the Division of Motor Vehicles, Department of Transportation is reduced by six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and by one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year due to the decrease in personnel and costs attributable to the privatization of the State-operated vehicle registration offices in Raleigh and Charlotte mandated by Section 2 of this act.
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.