GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 122

Short Title:  Transporter Plate/Salvage Changes.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Arnold, Gamble, Luebke, Ramsey, and Tallent.

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Referred to:  Transportation.

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February 7, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ALLOW SPECIAL MOBILE EQUIPMENT DEALERS TO USE TRANSPORTER PLATES ON THE EQUIPMENT IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES AND TO PROVIDE A HIGHWAY USE TAX EXEMPTION AND A REDUCED TITLE FEE FOR THE TRANSFER OF A WRECKED MOTOR VEHICLE FROM AN INSURANCE COMPANY TO THE PERSON WHO OWNED THE VEHICLE WHEN IT WAS WRECKED.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 20-79.2(a) reads as rewritten:
	"(a)	Who Can Get a Plate. – A person engaged in a business requiring the limited operation of a motor vehicle for any of the following purposes may obtain a transporter plate authorizing the movement of the vehicle for the specific purpose:
(1)	To facilitate the manufacture, construction, rebuilding, or delivery of new or used truck cabs or bodies between manufacturer, dealer, seller, or purchaser.
(2)	To repossess a motor vehicle.
(3)	To pick up a motor vehicle that is to be repaired or otherwise prepared for sale by a dealer, to road-test the vehicle, if it is repaired, within a 10-mile radius of the place where it is repaired, and to deliver the vehicle to the dealer.
(4)	To move a motor vehicle that is owned by a public utility, as defined in G.S. 62-3(23)a, and is a replaced vehicle offered for sale.
(5)	To take a motor vehicle either to or from a motor vehicle auction where the vehicle will be or was offered for sale.
(6)	To road-test a repaired truck whose GVWR is at least 15,000 pounds when the test is performed within a 10-mile radius of the place where the truck was repaired and the truck is owned by a person who has a fleet of at least five trucks whose GVWRs are at least 15,000 pounds and who maintains the place where the truck was repaired.
(7)	To move a mobile office, a mobile classroom, or a mobile or manufactured home.
(8)	To drive a motor vehicle that is at least 25 years old to and from a parade or another public event and to drive the motor vehicle in that event.  A person who owns a motor vehicle that is at least 25 years old is considered to be in the business of collecting those vehicles.
(9)	To drive a motor vehicle that is part of the inventory of a dealer to and from a motor vehicle trade show or exhibition or to, during, and from a parade in which the motor vehicle is used.
(10)	To drive special mobile equipment in any of the following circumstances:
a.	From the manufacturer of the equipment to a facility of a dealer.
b.	From one facility of a dealer to another facility of a dealer.
c.	From a dealer to the person who buys the equipment from the dealer."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 105-187.6(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Full Exemptions. – The tax imposed by this Article does not apply when a certificate of title is issued as the result of a transfer of a motor vehicle:
(1)	To the insurer of the motor vehicle under G.S. 20-109.1 because the vehicle is a salvage vehicle.
(1a)	By an insurer to a person who was required by G.S. 20-109.1 to transfer the vehicle to the insurer because the vehicle was a salvage vehicle.
(2)	To either a manufacturer, as defined in G.S. 20-286, or a motor vehicle retailer for the purpose of resale.
(3)	To the same owner to reflect a change or correction in the owner's name.
(4)	By will or intestacy.
(5)	By a gift between a husband and wife, a parent and child, or a stepparent and a stepchild.
(6)	By a distribution of marital property as a result of a divorce.
(7)	To a handicapped person from the Department of Human Resources after the vehicle has been equipped by the Department for use by the handicapped.
(8)	To a local board of education for use in the driver education program of a public school when the motor vehicle is transferred:
a.	By a retailer and is to be transferred back to the retailer within 300 days after the transfer to the local board.
b.	By a local board of education."
Sec. 3.  G.S. 20-85 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20-85.  Schedule of fees.
	(a)	The following fees are imposed concerning a certificate of title, a registration card, or a registration plate for a motor vehicle.  These fees are payable to the Division and are in addition to the tax imposed by Article 5A of Chapter 105 of the General Statutes.
(1)	Each application for certificate of
	title	$35.00
(2)	Each application for duplicate
	or corrected certificate of title	10.00
(3)	Each application of repossessor for
	certificate of title	10.00
(4)	Each transfer of registration	10.00
(5)	Each set of replacement registration
	plates	10.00
(6)	Each application for duplicate registration
	card	10.00
(7)	Each application for recording supplementary
	lien	10.00
(8)	Each application for removing a lien from a
	certificate of title	10.00
(9)	Each application for certificate of title for a
	motor vehicle transferred to a manufacturer,
	as defined in G.S. 20-286, or a motor vehicle
	retailer for the purpose of resale	
		10.00
(10)	Each application by an insurer for a
	salvage certificate of title	10.00
(11)	Each application for reissuance of a
	certificate of title for a salvage vehicle
	made by the person who owned the vehicle when
	its title was transferred to its insurer..	10.00.
(b)	Thirty-one dollars and fifty cents ($31.50) of each title fee collected under subdivision (a)(1) of this section and all of the fees collected under subdivisions (a)(2) through (a)(9) of this section shall be credited to the North Carolina Highway Trust Fund.  The remaining three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) of the title fee collected under subdivision (a)(1) and the fees collected under subdivisions (a)(10) and (a)(11) shall be credited to the Highway Fund.  Fifteen dollars ($15.00) of each title fee credited to the Trust Fund under subdivision (a)(1) shall be added to the amount allocated for secondary roads under G.S. 136-176 and used in accordance with G.S. 136-44.5."
Sec. 4.  G.S. 20-109.1(e) reads as rewritten:
"(e)	G.S. 20-85 sets the fee for issuing a salvage certificate of title and for reissuing a certificate of title for a rebuilt salvage vehicle."
Sec. 5.  Sections 2, 3, and 4 of this act become effective July 1, 1995.  The remaining sections of this act are effective upon ratification.