What's happening
This bill allows county clerks to retain a percentage of fees collected from motor vehicle services processed through the DMV website.
Why it matters
Directs more DMV-related revenue to counties. By letting county clerks retain a percentage of fees from online motor vehicle services, the bill increases local funding and may help counties better support DMV operations and public services.
Incentivizes county support for online DMV services. Counties now have a financial stake in encouraging residents to use the DMV website, potentially improving efficiency and convenience for the public.
Raises the retention rate for county clerks. The bill increases the county clerks’ share from 12.7% to 15% of gross receipts, meaning counties will see a larger direct benefit from DMV transactions, both in-person and online.
May impact state-county fiscal relations. This change could shift some revenue from the state to counties, potentially affecting state budget calculations and prompting discussions about the division of service costs and responsibilities.
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Let Counties Keep DMV Fees
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11 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1445
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. JENNE, WOERNER, HOOPER, SCHIMMINGER, SKOUFIS, KEARNS, CROUCH, BLAKE, JAFFEE, McLAUGHLIN, GRAF, PALMESANO, MURRAY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BRABENEC, GIGLIO, LOPEZ, LUPARDO, OAKS, SKARTADOS, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing county clerks to retain fees collected for motor vehicle related services through a department of motor vehicles' website
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 205 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by section 3 of part G of chapter 59 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
3. (a) Each such county clerk shall retain from fees collected for any motor vehicle related service described in subdivision one of this section processed by such county clerk an amount based on a percentage of gross receipts collected. For purposes of this section, the term "gross receipts" shall include all fines, fees and penalties collected pursuant to this chapter by a county clerk acting as agent of the commissioner or department of motor vehicles' website, but shall not include any state or local sales or compensating use taxes imposed under or pursuant to the authority of articles twenty-eight and twenty-nine of the tax law and collected by such clerk or department of motor vehicles' website on behalf of the commissioner of taxation and finance. The retention percentage shall be [12.7] fifteen percent and shall take effect April first, [nineteen hundred ninety-nine; provided, however, the retention percentage shall be thirty percent of the thirty dollar fee established in paragraph (e) of subdivision two of section four hundred ninety-one and paragraph f-one of subdivision two of section five hundred three of this chapter] two thousand eighteen.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02547-01-7
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(b) The commissioner shall remit on a quarterly basis to each such county clerk from fees collected for any motor vehicle related service described in subdivision one of this section that are processed through the department of motor vehicles' website the retention percentage of gross receipts collected, as such retention percentage is described in paragraph (a) of this subdivision which such county clerk would have been entitled to retain pursuant to this subdivision if such fees had been processed in the county of record of the registrant.
§ 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2018; provided, however, that effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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