PRINTER'S NO. 463
No. 420 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY McCUE, A. K. HUTCHINSON, WILSON, SHUMAN AND
CUMBERLAND, FEBRUARY 11, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 11, 1975
AN ACT
1 Authorizing notaries public to issue annual renewals of motor
2 vehicle registration cards and license plates; requiring a
3 bond be posted; requiring an annual fee; and regulating the
4 functions relating to issuing annual registrations.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Annual Renewals of Registration by Notaries
8 Public.--(a) Notaries public of each county, upon filing a
9 $10,000 bond and payment of an annual fee of $100 with the
10 Department of Revenue, may act as agents of the Department of
11 Revenue for the receiving of applications and issuing
12 registration cards and plates for the annual renewals of
13 registration of motor vehicles or tractors and for the
14 collection of the fees fixed by law for such renewals of
15 registration of motor vehicles or tractors.
16 (b) The notary public shall keep in his office a file or
17 book to be furnished by the department containing at all times a
18 correct and complete record of all renewal registrations issued
19 by him and he shall at the end of each week transmit to the
1 department all such applications received by him, a statement
2 showing all registrations issued by him, and the numbers
3 assigned to each applicant, all fees collected by him during
4 such weeks, and any other information and data the department
5 may require.
6 (c) All books, records and papers of the notary public
7 relating to the registration of motor vehicles and tractors
8 shall, at any reasonable time, be open to the inspection of any
9 officer of the Commonwealth and to any representative of the
10 Department of Revenue or the Department of the Auditor General.
11 (d) Any owner of a motor vehicle or tractor who desires to
12 renew the registration of such motor vehicle or tractor as
13 provided by law may make application for such renewal of
14 registration to the notary public of his respective county or,
15 if the applicant is not a resident of any county of the
16 Commonwealth, then the application may be made to the notary
17 public of the county in which such applicant may be for the time
18 being. Such applications shall be made on blanks to be furnished
19 by the department and shall be in the same form as now or
20 hereafter prescribed by law.
21 (e) At the time of making such application for renewal of
22 registration, there shall be paid to the notary public the
23 registration fee now or hereafter fixed by law, whereupon the
24 proper registration plates and cards which shall be furnished by
25 the department shall be issued to the applicant by the notary
26 public.
27 (f) The notary public's fee for service shall not exceed $5
28 per registration.
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