SB281 Alabama 2016 Session

Under existing statutory law, the motor vehicle title law provides for certain designated motor vehicles to be subject to the title law based on the model year of the vehicles. The Department of Revenue has further provided for exemptions from the title requirements by rule based on the age of the vehicle and has included in the exemption certain new types of vehicles, such as low speed vehicles

This bill would update title requirements for motor vehicles based on the age of the vehicle including passenger vehicles, semi-trailers, travel trailers, utility trailers, and moving collapsible folding campers. The bill would also exempt the certain vehicles from title requirements

The bill would also further designate the penalty when a dealer violates the law to a Class A misdemeanor

The bill would also require a thirty-five day notice to the department prior to certain involuntary transfers of motor vehicles of law

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment

Relating to motor vehicles and certificates of title; to amend Sections 32-8-30, as amended by Act 2015-362; 32-8-31; 32-8-42; and 32-8-46, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide title requirements for certain motor vehicles; to change the penalty for a dealer who violates the law; to require notice to the department of an involuntary transfer of a motor vehicle title by operation of law; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.