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      Sec. 14-49b. Registration renewal fee. (a) For each new registration or renewal of registration of any motor vehicle with the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles pursuant to this chapter, the person registering such vehicle shall pay to the commissioner a fee of ten dollars for registration for a biennial period and five dollars for registration for an annual period, except that any individual who is sixty-five years of age or older on or after January 1, 1994, may, at the discretion of such individual, pay the fee for either a one-year or two-year period. The provisions of this section shall not apply with respect to any motor vehicle which is not self-propelled, which is electrically powered, or which is exempted from payment of a registration fee. This fee may be identified as the "federal Clean Air Act fee" on any registration form provided by the commissioner. Payments collected pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be deposited as follows: (1) Fifty-seven and one-half per cent of such payments collected shall be deposited into the Special Transportation Fund established pursuant to section 13b-68, and (2) forty-two and one-half per cent of such payments collected shall be deposited in a treasurer's account and credited to a separate, nonlapsing federal Clean Air Act account which shall be established by the Comptroller within the General Fund. The federal Clean Air Act account may be used to pay any costs to state agencies of implementing the requirements of the federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 that are not otherwise met by the fees collected pursuant to section 22a-174 and any funds transferred to the account pursuant to section 22a-27m may additionally be used by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection to carry out the provisions of chapter 446c. All moneys deposited in this account are deemed to be appropriated for this purpose. The fee required by this section is in addition to any other fees prescribed by any other provision of this title for the registration of a motor vehicle.

      (b) The Commissioner of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, shall annually, within ninety days prior to the beginning of the next ensuing fiscal year, submit to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management an annual operating budget for the federal Clean Air Act account, providing for the operation of programs to implement the federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, to the extent that the payment of such costs has not otherwise been adequately provided for. Such annual operating budget shall include an estimate of revenues from the fees and charges fixed by law, and from any and all other sources, to meet the estimated expenditures of the federal Clean Air Act account for such fiscal year. Within thirty days prior to the first day of such fiscal year the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall approve said annual operating budget, with such changes, amendments, additions and deletions as shall be agreed upon prior to that date by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management.

      (P.A. 93-235, S. 3; P.A. 94-189, S. 22; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 46, 121; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-6, S. 79, 85; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 150; P.A. 04-151, S. 11; P.A. 06-161, S. 7.)

      History: P.A. 94-189 amended Subsec. (a) by adding the provision "that any individual who is 65 years of age or older on or after January 1, 1994, may, at his discretion, pay the fee for either a one-year or two-year period"; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing the "Clean Air Act fund" with the "Clean Air Act account", effective June 24, 1998; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-6 amended Subsec. (a) to add provision re new registration, to increase the Clean Air Act fee, to provide that a portion of the revenue therefrom shall go to the Special Transportation Fund, to provide that fee required by section is in addition to other registration fees and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 2001; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 amended Subsec. (a) by adding "and any funds transferred to the account pursuant to section 22a-27m may additionally be used by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection to carry out the provisions of chapter 446c"; P.A. 04-151 amended Subsec. (a) to change "22a-174a" to "22a-174", effective May 21, 2004; P.A. 06-161 made a technical change in Subsec. (a).