SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 2220

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES NAEGER (Sponsor), BEHNEN, HOLT, SECREST,

SANDERS BROOKS, SHOEMAKER (8) AND MOORE.

Read 1^st time March 15, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 301.147, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to biennial registration of motor vehicles.

Section A. Section 301.147, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 301.147, to read as follows:

301.147. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 301.020 to the contrary, beginning July 1, 2000, the director of revenue may provide owners of motor vehicles, other than commercial motor vehicles licensed in excess of twelve thousand pounds gross weight, the option of biennially registering motor vehicles. Any vehicle [manufactured as an even-numbered model year vehicle shall be renewed each even-numbered calendar year and any such vehicle manufactured as an odd-numbered model year vehicle shall be renewed each odd-numbered calendar year] may be registered biennially, subject to the following requirements:

(1) The fee collected at the time of biennial registration shall include the annual registration fee plus a pro rata amount for the additional twelve months of the biennial registration;

(2) Presentation of all documentation otherwise required by law for vehicle registration including, but not limited to, a personal property tax receipt or certified statement for the preceding year that no such taxes were due as set forth in section 301.025, proof of a biennial motor vehicle safety inspection and any applicable emission inspection conducted within sixty days prior to the date of application and proof of insurance as required by section 303.026, RSMo;

(3) For those motor vehicles owned by a person who resides in a county of the first classification without a charter form of government with a population of less than one hundred thousand inhabitants according to the most recent decennial census who chooses biennial registration pursuant to this section and who does not submit proof of an emission inspection pursuant to section 643.315, RSMo, but instead submits proof of an emission inspection pursuant to section 307.366, RSMo, the director of the department of revenue shall issue a motor vehicle registration tab valid only for one year. The year following issuance to a person of a motor vehicle registration tab valid only for one year, the director or the director's authorized designee shall, upon notification of any such person's completed emission inspection pursuant to section 307.366, RSMo, by the department of natural resources or its designee, without further application or proof issue such person an additional motor vehicle registration tab valid for the remaining biennial period.

2. The director of revenue may prescribe rules and regulations for the effective administration of this section. The director is authorized to adopt those rules that are reasonable and necessary to accomplish the limited duties specifically delegated within this section. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, RSMo, that is promulgated pursuant to the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo. This section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo, to review, to delay the effective date or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after July 1, 2000, shall be invalid and void.

3. [The director of revenue shall have the authority to stagger the registration period of motor vehicles other than commercial motor vehicles licensed in excess of twelve thousand pounds gross weight.] Once the owner of a motor vehicle chooses the option of biennial registration, such registration must be maintained for the full twenty-four month period.

Missouri House of Representatives