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S1440.....................................................by TRANSPORTATION
MOTOR VEHICLES - REGISTRATION - Amends existing law to provide a single
registration fee for registration of vehicles in the weight classifications
of 16,000 to 26,000 pounds maximum gross weight and 26,000 to 30,000 pounds
maximum gross weight.
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|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2002
IN THE SENATE
SENATE BILL NO. 1440
BY TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
1 AN ACT
2 RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES WEIGHING IN EXCESS OF EIGHT THOU-
3 SAND POUNDS MAXIMUM GROSS WEIGHT; AMENDING SECTION 49-434, IDAHO CODE, TO
4 PROVIDE A SINGLE REGISTRATION FEE FOR REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES IN THE
5 WEIGHT CLASSIFICATIONS OF SIXTEEN THOUSAND TO TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND POUNDS
6 MAXIMUM GROSS WEIGHT AND TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND TO THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS
7 MAXIMUM GROSS WEIGHT AND TO CORRECT CODIFIER'S ERRORS; AND PROVIDING AN
8 EFFECTIVE DATE.
9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
10 SECTION 1. That Section 49-434, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
11 amended to read as follows:
12 49-434. OPERATING FEES. (1) There shall be paid on all commercial vehi-
13 cles, noncommercial vehicles, and on all farm vehicles having a maximum gross
14 weight not in excess of sixty thousand (60,000) pounds, an annual registration
15 fee in accordance with the following schedule.
16 Unladen Weight for Wreckers Annual Registration Fee
17 Maximum Gross Weight Noncommercial and Commercial
18 For Other Vehicles Farm Vehicles Vehicles
19 (Pounds) and Wreckers
20 8,001-16,000 inc. .....................$ 48.00 $ 48.00
21 16,001-26,000 inc. ..................... 61.08 143.40
22 130.00 130.00
23 26,001-30,000 inc. ..................... 91.68 223.80
24 130.00 130.00
25 30,001-40,000 inc. ..................... 130.08 291.60
26 40,001-50,000 inc. ..................... 188.28 360.00
27 50,001-60,000 inc. ..................... 311.88 515.40
28 (2) There shall be paid on all commercial vehicles, irrespective of body
29 type, and on all farm vehicles having a maximum gross weight in excess of
30 sixty thousand (60,000) pounds, an annual registration fee in the amount pre-
31 scribed by subsection (8) of this section, as applicable.
32 (3) In addition, the annual registration fee for trailers shall be:
33 (a) Trailer or semitrailer in a combination of vehicles ...........$15.00
34 (b) Rental utility trailer with a gross weight of two thousand (2,000)
35 pounds or less ......................................................$8.00
36 (c) Rental utility trailer with a gross weight over two thousand (2,000)
37 pounds .............................................................$15.00
38 (4) As an option to the trailer and semitrailer annual registration, the
39 department may provide extended registration.
40 (a) For trailers and semitrailers, the optional extended-registration
41 period shall not extend beyond seven (7) years.
42 (b) The fee shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00) for each year.
43 (c) The license plate originally issued shall remain on the trailer or
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1 semitrailer until the registration expires.
2 (d) The registration document shall be the official record of the status
3 of the extended registration. No pressure-sensitive validation sticker
4 shall be required.
5 (e) For rental utility trailers, the optional registration period shall
6 not extend beyond five (5) years. The fee shall be as specified in subsec-
7 tion (3)(b) or (c) of this section. A pressure-sensitive sticker shall be
8 used to validate the license plate. The license plate shall become void if
9 the owner's interest in the rental utility trailer changes during the five
10 (5) year period. If the owner fails to enter the rental utility trailer on
11 the annual renewal application during the five (5) year period, the regis-
12 tration record shall be purged. Any unrenewed plate shall be returned to
13 the department if it is not entered on the renewal application.
14 (5) A fleet registration option is available to owners who have twenty-
15 five (25) or more commercial or farm vehicles or any combination thereof. Such
16 owners may register all of their company vehicles with the department in lieu
17 of registering with a county assessor. To qualify the fleet must be owned and
18 operated under the unified control of one (1) person and the vehicles must be
19 physically garaged and maintained in two (2) or more counties. Fleet registra-
20 tion shall not include fleets of rental vehicles. The department shall provide
21 a registration application to the owner and the owner shall provide all infor-
22 mation that the department determines is necessary. The department shall
23 devise a special license plate numbering system for fleet-registered vehicles
24 as an alternative to county license plates. The fleet registration application
25 and all subsequent registration renewals shall include the physical address
26 where a vehicle is principally used, garaged and maintained. The fleet owner
27 shall report the physical address to the department upon initial registration,
28 on each renewal, and at any time a vehicle registered under this option is
29 permanently transferred to another location.
30 (6) If the ownership of a vehicle changes during the registration period,
31 the original owner may transfer the plate to another vehicle. The remaining
32 fee shall be credited against the cost of the new registration. Refunds may be
33 given for any unexpired portion of the vehicle registration fee if the plate
34 is not transferred by the owner to another vehicle. Any request for refund
35 shall include surrender of the license plate, validation sticker and registra-
36 tion document. Owners of vehicles registered under the international registra-
37 tion plan may request a refund of the unexpired portion of the Idaho vehicle
38 registration fee by presenting evidence from the base jurisdiction that the
39 license plate, validation sticker and registration document have been surren-
40 dered. A license plate shall not be transferred to another owner when the own-
41 ership of a vehicle changes. The owner shall obtain a replacement plate, vali-
42 dation sticker if required, and a registration document when a plate is lost,
43 destroyed or becomes illegible.
44 (7) An administrative fee of four dollars ($4.00) shall be paid and
45 deposited to the state highway account on all registrations completed by the
46 department under subsection (1) or (8)(a) of this section. Vehicles registered
47 under subsection (8)(b) of this section shall pay the fee provided in section
48 49-435(2), Idaho Code.
49 (8) There shall be paid on all commercial and farm vehicles having a max-
50 imum gross weight in excess of sixty thousand (60,000) pounds, a registration
51 fee based upon the maximum gross weight of a vehicle as declared by the owner
52 and the total number of miles driven on roads and highways in the state,
53 county, city and highway district systems in Idaho, and if registered under
54 the international registration plan (IRP), in all other jurisdictions. The
55 appropriate registration fee shall be determined as follows:
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1 (a) If the owner registers vehicles under the international registration
2 plan (IRP), the appropriate mileage column shall be determined by the
3 total miles an owner operated a fleet of vehicles on roads and highways in
4 the state, county, city and highway district systems in Idaho and in all
5 other jurisdictions in the preceding year, as defined in section 49-117,
6 Idaho Code, and by the maximum gross weight of each vehicle within a
7 fleet.
8 (b) If the owner registers vehicles under the international registration
9 plan and determines that the average international registration plan fleet
10 miles, calculated by dividing the total IRP fleet miles in all jurisdic-
11 tions by the number of registered vehicles, is less than fifty thousand
12 one (50,001) miles, the owner may apply to the department for refund of a
13 portion of the registration fees paid, consistent with the fee schedules
14 set forth in this section. The department shall provide an application for
15 the refund. An owner making application for refund under this section
16 shall be subject to auditing as provided in section 49-439, Idaho Code.
17 (c) If the owner is not registering vehicles under the international reg-
18 istration plan, the appropriate mileage column shall be determined by the
19 total miles the owner operated each of the vehicles to be registered on
20 roads and highways in the state, county, city and highway district systems
21 in Idaho in the preceding year and by the maximum gross weight of each
22 vehicle.
23 Maximum Gross
24 Weight of Vehicle Total Miles Driven
25 (Pounds)
26 1-7,500 7,501-50,000 Over
27 50,000
28 1 to 7,501 to 20,001 to 35,001 to Over
29 7,500 20,000 35,000 50,000 50,000
30 60,001-62,000 $223 $ 511 $ 789 $1,068 $1,560
31 62,001-64,000 $251 $ 576 $ 890 $1,205 $1,760
32 64,001-66,000 $280 $ 642 $ 992 $1,342 $1,960
33 66,001-68,000 $309 $ 707 $1,093 $1,479 $2,160
34 68,001-70,000 $337 $ 773 $1,194 $1,615 $2,360
35 70,001-72,000 $366 $ 838 $1,295 $1,752 $2,560
36 72,001-74,000 $394 $ 904 $1,396 $1,889 $2,760
37 74,001-76,000 $423 $ 969 $1,498 $2,026 $2,960
38 76,001-78,000 $451 $1,035 $1,599 $2,163 $3,160
39 78,001-80,000 $480 $1,100 $1,700 $2,300 $3,360
40 80,001-82,000 $494 $1,133 $1,751 $2,368 $3,460
41 82,001-84,000 $509 $1,165 $1,801 $2,437 $3,560
42 84,001-86,000 $523 $1,198 $1,852 $2,505 $3,660
43 86,001-88,000 $537 $1,231 $1,902 $2,574 $3,760
44 88,001-90,000 $551 $1,264 $1,953 $2,642 $3,860
45 90,001-92,000 $566 $1,296 $2,004 $2,711 $3,960
46 92,001-94,000 $580 $1,329 $2,054 $2,779 $4,060
47 94,001-96,000 $594 $1,362 $2,105 $2,848 $4,160
48 96,001-98,000 $609 $1,395 $2,155 $2,916 $4,260
49 98,001-100,000 $623 $1,427 $2,206 $2,985 $4,360
50 100,001-102,000 $637 $1,460 $2,257 $3,053 $4,460
51 $4,460
52 102,001-104,000 $651 $1,493 $2,307 $3,121 $4,560
53 104,001-106,000 $666 $1,526 $2,358 $3,190 $4,660
54 106,001-108,000 $680 $1,558 $2,408 $3,258 $4,760
55 108,001-110,000 $694 $1,591 $2,459 $3,327 $4,860
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1 Maximum Gross
2 Weight of Vehicle Total Miles Driven
3 (Pounds)
4 110,001-112,000 $709 $1,624 $2,510 $3,395 $4,960
5 112,001-114,000 $723 $1,657 $2,560 $3,464 $5,060
6 114,001-116,000 $737 $1,689 $2,611 $3,532 $5,160
7 116,001-118,000 $751 $1,722 $2,661 $3,601 $5,260
8 118,001-120,000 $766 $1,755 $2,712 $3,669 $5,360
9 120,001-122,000 $780 $1,788 $2,763 $3,738 $5,460
10 122,001-124,000 $794 $1,820 $2,813 $3,806 $5,560
11 124,001-126,000 $809 $1,853 $2,864 $3,874 $5,660
12 126,001-128,000 $823 $1,886 $2,914 $3,943 $5,760
13 128,001-129,000 $837 $1,918 $2,965 $4,011 $5,860
14 (d) In addition to the fees set forth in paragraphs (a) and (c) of this
15 subsection (8), an owner or operator may purchase a temporary permit as
16 provided in section 49-432(2), Idaho Code, for operation of a vehicle at a
17 weight in excess of the current, valid, registered maximum gross vehicle
18 weight. The permit so issued shall be specific to the motor vehicle to
19 which it is issued. No permit or fee shall be transferable or apportion-
20 able to any other vehicle, nor shall any such fee be refundable.
21 (e) Any commercial or farm vehicle registered for more than sixty thou-
22 sand (60,000) pounds up to one hundred six thousand (106,000) pounds
23 traveling fewer than two thousand five hundred (2,500) miles annually on
24 roads and highways in the state, county, city and highway district systems
25 in Idaho shall pay an annual registration fee of two hundred fifty-five
26 dollars ($255). The provisions of section 49-437(2), Idaho Code, shall not
27 apply to vehicles registered under this subsection (8)(e).
28 (9) (a) During the first registration year that the fee schedule in sub-
29 section (8)(c) of this section is in use, an owner shall use the mileage
30 data from the records used to report the mileage use fee in the immedi-
31 ately preceding year as the basis for determining the appropriate regis-
32 tration fee schedule.
33 (b) Any owner who registers a motor vehicle for the first time and who
34 has no mileage history for the vehicle shall estimate the miles to deter-
35 mine the appropriate fee schedule in subsection (8)(c) of this section.
36 When estimating the miles, the owner shall provide a statement on the
37 application of the method used to arrive at the estimated miles.
38 (c) Any owner using any fee schedule other than the highest fee schedule
39 under subsection (8)(c) of this section, shall certify at the time of reg-
40 istration that the miles operated in the preceding year do not exceed the
41 schedule applied for. Any owner using a fee schedule under subsection
42 (8)(c) of this section that is less than the highest schedule shall main-
43 tain records to substantiate the use of the schedule as required by sec-
44 tion 49-439, Idaho Code.
45 (10) An owner registering under subsection (8)(a) or (8)(c) of this sec-
46 tion may elect to pay the full annual registration fee at the time of regis-
47 tration or renewal of registration, or an owner may pay at least one-quarter
48 (1/4) of the annual registration fee due. The remainder of the annual Idaho
49 registration fee shall be paid in three (3) equal installments on dates as
50 billed by the department.
51 (11) An owner registering or renewing a registration under subsection
52 (8)(a) of this section electing to use installment payments as provided in
53 subsection (10) of this section, shall pay all of the fees due to other IRP
54 jurisdictions in addition to one-quarter (1/4) of the Idaho fee due at the
55 time of registration or reregistration. The remainder of the annual Idaho reg-
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1 istration fee shall be paid in three (3) equal installments on dates as billed
2 by the department.
3 (12) If any vehicle or combinations of vehicles haul nonreducible loads,
4 as authorized under the provisions of section 49-1004, Idaho Code, and weigh
5 less than the starting weights per axle configuration listed in column 1 of
6 subsection (2), section 49-1004, Idaho Code, then and in that event there
7 shall be paid for that vehicle, in addition to the other fees required in this
8 section, an additional use fee of 2.1 mills per mile for each two thousand
9 (2,000) pounds or fraction thereof of the maximum gross weight in excess of
10 those set forth in section 49-1001, Idaho Code.
11 SECTION 2. This act shall be in full force and effect on and after Janu-
12 ary 1, 2003.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 11997
The purpose of this legislation is to equalize registration
on Motor Vehicles from 16,000 to 30,000 lbs. maximum gross weight.
This legislation will simplify registration for farmers who will
now be able to use these vehicles for commercial use. The new
annual registration fee is designed to be revenue neutral. This
legislation is designed to treat fairly both commercial and
non-commercial vehicles.
FISCAL IMPACT
No impact on the General Fund. Minimum impact on the
Highway Distribution Account. New registration fees are the best
estimates available to insure that this legislation is revenue
neutral.
Contact
Name: Senator Evan Frasure
Phone: 332-1315
Morris Detmar
Idaho Transportation Department
334-8606
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE S 1440