PRINTER'S NO. 77
No. 73 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY LLOYD, KUKOVICH, PISTELLA, PRATT, D. R. WRIGHT,
MERRY, LETTERMAN, CAWLEY, FISCHER, LASHINGER, HALUSKA,
L. E. SMITH, BELFANTI, DeWEESE, MILLER, STEIGHNER, JOHNSON,
TIGUE, PERZEL, NOYE, RYBAK, BELARDI, BUSH, MORRIS AND
PRESTON, JANUARY 23, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 23, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for receipt and processing of
3 applications and fees within maintenance districts.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 6102 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 6102. Powers and duties of department and local authorities.
9 (a) Department.--The department is charged with the duty of
10 administering the provisions of this title and of all laws the
11 administration of which is now or hereafter vested in the
12 department. For the purpose of administering those provisions of
13 this title relating to certificates of title, licensing of
14 drivers and registration of motor vehicles, the department shall
15 assign and equip personnel in the headquarters facility of, or
16 elsewhere within, each maintenance district who shall, on a fee
17 basis, receive and process applications and fees for and issue
1 the appropriate certificates, cards and plates. In lieu of
2 assigning and equipping personnel in the headquarters facility
3 of, or elsewhere within, a maintenance district, the department
4 may enter into an agreement whereby the treasurer of each county
5 in that maintenance district or the Pennsylvania State Police of
6 at least one barracks in that maintenance district acts, on a
7 fee basis, as agent for the department in receiving and
8 processing applications and fees for and issuing the appropriate
9 certificates, cards and plates within that county or maintenance
10 district.
11 (b) Local authorities.--Local authorities may exercise the
12 powers granted in this chapter only by duly enacted ordinances
13 of their governing bodies.
14 Section 2. The Department of Transportation shall submit to
15 the General Assembly proposed fees for the recovery of the costs
16 incurred by the department, the county treasurers and the
17 Pennsylvania State Police in carrying out the purposes of this
18 act. No fees shall become effective until they have been enacted
19 into law and the department may defer the implementation of this
20 act until the enactment of such fees.
21 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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