GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1165

Short Title:  County Remove Registration Block.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Kerr, Hoyle, Gulley, Horton, Martin of Pitt, Rand, Smith, and Speed.

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Referred to:  Finance.

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May 15, 1996

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ALLOW COUNTIES TO ELECTRONICALLY REMOVE A VEHICLE REGISTRATION TAX BLOCK UPON FULL PAYMENT OF PROPERTY TAXES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 20-50.4 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20-50.4.  Division to refuse to register vehicles on which taxes are delinquent.
Upon receiving the list of motor vehicle owners and motor vehicles sent by county tax collectors pursuant to G.S. 105-330.7, the Division shall refuse to register for the owner named in the list any vehicle identified in the list until either the vehicle owner presents the Division with a paid tax receipt identifying the vehicle for which registration was refused or the county electronically certifies to the Division that the tax has been paid.  The Division shall not refuse to register a vehicle for a person, not named in the list, to whom the vehicle has been transferred in good faith.  Where a motor vehicle owner named in the list has transferred the registration plates from the motor vehicle identified in the list to another motor vehicle pursuant to G.S. 20-64 during the first vehicle's tax year, the Division shall refuse registration of the second vehicle until the vehicle owner presents the Division with a paid tax receipt identifying the vehicle from which the plates were transferred or the county electronically certifies to the Division that the tax has been paid.  An electronic certification by the county must be in the format required by the Division."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.