Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:1442 Primary Sponsor:Rose Committee Number:15 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Property tax payment, Revenue and Taxation Department Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Transportation Computer Document Number:1442 Introduced Date:19940531 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19940531 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Rose Type of Legislation:General Bill
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1442 Senate 19940531 Introduced, read first time, 15
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TO AMEND SECTION 56-3-251 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF BIENNIAL LICENSE PLATES AND REVALIDATION DECALS UPON PAYMENT OF PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES, SO AS TO CHANGE THE REFERENCES TO DEPARTMENT TO CONFORM TO THE RESTRUCTURING ACT AND PROVIDE FOR APPROPRIATIONS TO FUND THE ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECTION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 56-3-251 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 56-3-251. (A) The Department of Highways Revenue and Public Transportation Taxation shall issue biennial license plates or revalidation decals based upon Section 56-3-253.
(B) Upon electronic notification from the county treasurer or county tax collector that personal property taxes have been paid for the second year of the biennial registration, the department shall mail to the vehicle owner a validation decal for the second year of the biennial registration period. Upon electronic notification from the county treasurer or county tax collector to the department that the taxes have not been paid on a vehicle, the department shall suspend the vehicle registration and license plate, and driver's license, if provided a driver's license number, of the vehicle owner.
(C) The State shall appropriate funds to the counties to pay for the costs of implementing the electronic notification requirements of subsection (B). The costs may not exceed one dollar for each license plate or revalidation decal issued annually by the county. Documentation of the costs must be submitted annually by the counties to the department which must be used to determine the annual appropriation to the counties.
(B)(D) All validation decals must be issued for a period not to exceed more than twelve months."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 1994. However, state appropriations required to implement the amendment to Section 56-3-251 of the 1976 Code in this section must not be made until after June 30, 1995."