8-145. Collection of fees; disposition of moneys; compensation of county treasurers; highway patrol motor vehicle fund; VIPS/CAMA technology hardware fund; repossessed certificates of title fee fund;
8-145
8-145. Collection of fees; disposition of moneys;
compensation of county treasurers; highway patrol motor vehicle fund; VIPS/CAMA
technology hardware fund; repossessed certificates of title fee fund; division
of vehicles modernization fund.
(a) All
registration and certificates of title fees shall be paid to the county
treasurer of the county in which
the applicant for registration resides or has an office or principal place of
business within this state,
and the county treasurer shall issue a receipt in triplicate, on blanks
furnished by the division of
vehicles, one copy of which shall be filed in the county treasurer's office,
one copy shall be delivered
to the applicant and the original copy shall be forwarded to the director of
vehicles.
(b) The county treasurer shall deposit $.75 of each license application,
$.75 out of each application for transfer of license plate and $2 out of each
application for a
certificate of title,
collected by such treasurer under this act, in a special fund, which fund is
hereby appropriated for the use of the county treasurer in paying for necessary
help and expenses incidental to the
administration of duties in accordance with the provisions of this law and
extra compensation to the
county treasurer for the services performed in administering the provisions of
this act, which
compensation shall be in addition to any other compensation provided by any
other law, except that
the county treasurer shall receive as additional compensation for administering
the motor vehicle title
and registration laws and fees, a sum computed as follows: The county
treasurer, during the month
of December, shall determine the amount to be retained for extra compensation
not to exceed the
following amounts each year for calendar year 2006 or any calendar year
thereafter: The sum of $110
per hundred registrations for the first 5,000 registrations; the sum of $90 per
hundred registrations
for the second 5,000 registrations; the sum of $5 per hundred for the third
5,000 registrations; and
the sum of $2 per hundred registrations for all registrations thereafter. In no
event, however, shall
any county treasurer be entitled to receive more than $15,000 additional annual
compensation.
If more than one person shall hold the office of county treasurer during any
one calendar year,
such compensation shall be prorated among such persons in proportion to the
number of weeks
served. The total amount of compensation paid the treasurer together with the
amounts expended in
paying for other necessary help and expenses incidental to the administration
of the duties of the
county treasurer in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall not
exceed the amount deposited
in such special fund. Any balance remaining in such fund at the close of any
calendar year shall be
withdrawn and credited to the general fund of the county prior to June 1 of the
following calendar
year.
(c) The county treasurer shall remit the remainder of all such fees
collected, together with
the original copy of all applications, to the secretary of revenue. The
secretary of revenue shall remit
all such fees remitted to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions
of K.S.A. 75-4215, and
amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer
shall deposit the entire
amount in the state treasury to the credit of the state highway fund, except as
provided in subsection (d).
(d) (1) Three dollars and fifty cents of
each certificate of title fee
collected and remitted to
the secretary of revenue, shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall
credit such $3.50 to the
Kansas highway patrol motor vehicle fund. Three dollars of each certificate of
title fee collected and
remitted to the secretary of revenue, shall be remitted to the state treasurer
who shall credit such $3
to the VIPS/CAMA technology hardware fund.
(2) For repossessed vehicles, $3 of each certificate of title fee
collected
and remitted to the
secretary of revenue, shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall credit
such $3 to the
repossessed certificates of title fee fund.
(3) Three dollars and fifty cents of each reassignment form fee collected
and
remitted to the
secretary of revenue, shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall credit
such $3.50 to the Kansas
highway patrol motor vehicle fund. Three dollars of each reassignment form fee
collected and
remitted to the secretary of revenue, shall be remitted to the state treasurer
who shall credit such $3
to the VIPS/CAMA technology hardware fund.
(4) Four dollars of each division of vehicles modernization surcharge
collected and remitted
to the secretary of revenue, shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall
credit such $4 to the
division of vehicles modernization fund.
History: L. 1929, ch. 81, § 23;
L. 1933, ch. 73, § 2;
L. 1937, ch. 72, § 8;
L. 1938, ch. 12, § 2;
L. 1947, ch. 97, § 1;
L. 1949, ch. 102, § 1;
L. 1953, ch. 41, § 1;
L. 1961, ch. 50, § 1;
L. 1968, ch. 335, § 1;
L. 1969, ch. 49, § 1;
L. 1972, ch. 342, § 34;
L. 1974, ch. 35, § 8;
L. 1975, ch. 34, § 1;
L. 1978, ch. 33, § 1;
L. 1980, ch. 31, § 6;
L. 1985, ch. 45, § 1;
L. 1990, ch. 34, § 4;
L. 1993, ch. 176, § 5;
L. 1996, ch. 260, § 4;
L. 1998, ch. 140, § 10;
L. 1999, ch. 114, § 4;
L. 2001, ch. 5, § 27;
L. 2002, ch. 134, § 6;
L. 2003, ch. 30, § 4;
L. 2006, ch. 136, § 5;
L. 2008, ch. 181, § 3; Jan. 1, 2009.