MICHIGAN VEHICLE CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 300 of 1949
CERTIFICATE OF TITLE, DEALER'S LICENSE AND LIENS


257.806 Certificate of title or duplicate certificate of title; fees; special expeditious treatment; additional fee; deposit in transportation administration collection fund; special identifying number; payment and disposition of tire disposal surcharge.

Sec. 806.

    (1) Until October 1, 2027, an applicant for a certificate of title required by this act or an applicant for a duplicate of a certificate of title shall accompany the application with a fee of $10.00. An applicant that requests that the application be given special expeditious treatment shall accompany the application with an additional fee of $5.00. The secretary of state shall collect a $3.00 service fee, in addition to the other fees collected under this subsection, for each title issued and shall deposit the fee in the transportation administration collection fund created under section 810b through October 1, 2027. Until October 1, 2027, the $5.00 expeditious treatment fee must be deposited into the transportation administration collection fund created under section 810b.
    (2) An applicant for a special identifying number under section 230 shall accompany the application with a fee of $10.00.
    (3) In addition to paying the fees required by subsection (1), until December 31, 2027, each person that applies for a certificate of title, a salvage vehicle certificate of title, or a scrap certificate of title under this act shall pay a tire disposal surcharge of $1.50 for each certificate of title or duplicate of a certificate of title that person receives. The secretary of state shall deposit money received under this subsection into the scrap tire regulatory fund created in section 16908 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.16908.
    
    


History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949 ;-- Am. 1969, Act 93, Imd. Eff. July 24, 1969 ;-- Am. 1978, Act 492, Imd. Eff. Dec. 1, 1978 ;-- Am. 1987, Act 238, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1987 ;-- Am. 1990, Act 148, Eff. Jan. 1, 1991 ;-- Am. 1993, Act 300, Eff. Jan. 1, 1994 ;-- Am. 1995, Act 267, Imd. Eff. Jan. 8, 1996 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 456, Imd. Eff. Jan. 10, 2001 ;-- Am. 2001, Act 268, Imd. Eff. Jan. 11, 2002 ;-- Am. 2002, Act 497, Eff. Oct. 1, 2002 ;-- Am. 2003, Act 152, Eff. Oct. 1, 2003 ;-- Am. 2005, Act 141, Imd. Eff. Sept. 29, 2005 ;-- Am. 2005, Act 179, Eff. Oct. 20, 2005 ;-- Am. 2006, Act 526, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 2006 ;-- Am. 2007, Act 70, Imd. Eff. Sept. 30, 2007 ;-- Am. 2008, Act 281, Imd. Eff. Sept. 29, 2008 ;-- Am. 2009, Act 99, Imd. Eff. Sept. 30, 2009 ;-- Am. 2011, Act 159, Imd. Eff. Sept. 30, 2011 ;-- Am. 2015, Act 70, Eff. Oct. 1, 2015 ;-- Am. 2015, Act 78, Eff. Oct. 1, 2015 ;-- Am. 2019, Act 88, Imd. Eff. Sept. 30, 2019 ;-- Am. 2023, Act 129, Imd. Eff. Sept. 29, 2023





257.807 License fees.

Sec. 807.

    (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), an applicant shall include with an application for a license under section 248 one of the following fees:
Full year's license $ 160.00
Half year's license (after June 30) 80.00
Multiple year license 160.00
per year.
(2) An applicant shall include with an application for a used or secondhand vehicle parts dealer, an automotive recycler, or foreign salvage vehicle dealer license 1 of the following fees:
Full year's license $ 160.00
Half year's license (after June 30) 80.00
Multiple year license 160.00
per year.
    


History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949 ;-- Am. 1951, Act 270, Eff. Sept. 28, 1951 ;-- Am. 1987, Act 238, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1987 ;-- Am. 1988, Act 255, Eff. Oct. 1, 1989 ;-- Am. 1992, Act 304, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 1992 ;-- Am. 1993, Act 300, Eff. Jan. 1, 1994 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 384, Eff. Jan. 1, 1999 ;-- Am. 2003, Act 152, Eff. Oct. 1, 2003 ;-- Am. 2022, Act 224, Eff. Jan. 23, 2023





257.808 Liens on motor vehicles; fees.

Sec. 808.

    Any application for the placement or discharge of a lien on a motor vehicle under section 238 shall be accompanied by a fee of $1.00. Beginning on February 19, 2019, the fee collected under this section shall be credited to the transportation administration collection fund created in section 810b.


History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949 ;-- Am. 1962, Act 143, Eff. Mar. 28, 1963 ;-- Am. 2018, Act 342, Eff. Jan. 14, 2019





257.809 Application for transfer of registration; fee; payment of difference in fee; deposit into transportation administration collection fund.

Sec. 809.

    (1) An applicant to transfer the registration from a vehicle subject to section 801 to another vehicle subject to section 801 shall accompany the application with a transfer of registration fee of $10.00. If the registration plates are transferred to another vehicle, as provided in section 233, and if the registration plate fee for a 12-month registration for the vehicle to which the registration is transferred is greater than the registration plate fee paid upon registration of the vehicle from which the registration was removed, then, if applicable, in addition to the transfer of registration fee of $10.00, the secretary of state shall collect 1 of the registration difference fees as follows:
    (a) If the application for transfer of registration is accompanied by an application for a vehicle title indicating a transfer of vehicle ownership and the application for vehicle title indicates the vehicle ownership transfer is not exempt from use tax collection under section 3(3)(a) or 4bb of the use tax act, 1937 PA 94, MCL 205.93 and 205.94bb, then $5.00 must be collected.
    (b) If the vehicle to which the registration is being transferred has never previously been registered and the application for the last title issued was accompanied by a manufacturer certificate of origin, then $5.00 must be collected.
    (c) If the application for transfer of registration is not accompanied by an application for a vehicle title indicating a transfer of ownership, then the difference for the new registration must be collected.
    (2) If the registration plate fee for a 12-month registration for the vehicle to which the registration is transferred is less than the registration plate fee paid upon registration of the vehicle from which the registration was removed, the secretary of state shall collect a transfer of registration fee of $10.00 and a registration difference fee of $5.00 and shall not refund the difference.
    (3) Until October 1, 2027, a transfer of registration fee collected under this section must be deposited into the transportation administration collection fund created under section 810b.
    


History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949 ;-- Am. 1957, Act 90, Eff. Sept. 27, 1957 ;-- Am. 1962, Act 166, Eff. Mar. 28, 1963 ;-- Am. 1978, Act 62, Imd. Eff. Mar. 14, 1978 ;-- Am. 1979, Act 25, Imd. Eff. June 6, 1979 ;-- Am. 1984, Act 324, Imd. Eff. Dec. 26, 1984 ;-- Am. 1987, Act 238, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1987 ;-- Am. 2005, Act 141, Imd. Eff. Sept. 29, 2005 ;-- Am. 2007, Act 71, Imd. Eff. Sept. 30, 2007 ;-- Am. 2008, Act 280, Imd. Eff. Sept. 29, 2008 ;-- Am. 2009, Act 99, Imd. Eff. Sept. 30, 2009 ;-- Am. 2011, Act 159, Imd. Eff. Sept. 30, 2011 ;-- Am. 2015, Act 78, Eff. Oct. 1, 2015 ;-- Am. 2019, Act 88, Imd. Eff. Sept. 30, 2019 ;-- Am. 2020, Act 102, Eff. Sept. 29, 2020 ;-- Am. 2023, Act 129, Imd. Eff. Sept. 29, 2023





257.810 Disposition of fees.

Sec. 810.

     Except as otherwise provided, all fees received and money collected under sections 801 to 809 shall be deposited in the state treasury and shall be credited to the Michigan transportation fund.


History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949 ;-- Am. 1951, Act 55, Eff. Dec. 1, 1951 ;-- Am. 1987, Act 238, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1987 ;-- Am. 2003, Act 152, Eff. Oct. 1, 2003





257.810a Assessment; collection; disposition; purpose.

Sec. 810a.

     The secretary of state shall collect an assessment of 50 cents in connection with the issuance of a salvage vehicle certificate of title, a certificate of title, or beginning July 1, 1994 a scrap certificate of title. The assessment shall be collected in the same manner and at the same time as fees collected by the secretary of state pursuant to sections 217c and 806. Each assessment collected shall be deposited in a vehicle theft prevention account to be expended for purposes of developing a vehicle theft prevention program, including the administration, inspection, and enforcement of antitheft procedures, as described in this act.


History: Add. 1988, Act 255, Eff. Oct. 1, 1989 ;-- Am. 1992, Act 304, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 1992 ;-- Am. 1993, Act 300, Eff. Jan. 1, 1994





257.810b Transportation administration collection fund; creation; investment, disposition, and expenditure of money; payments under certain sections of law; report of itemized list of deposits and expenditures; review of funds to be used to leverage additional federal funds.

Sec. 810b.

    (1) The transportation administration collection fund is created within the state treasury.
    (2) The state treasurer may receive money from the collections authorized under this act for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.
    (3) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall not lapse into the Michigan transportation fund.
    (4) Except as provided in subsection (6), upon appropriation, the department of state shall expend money from the fund that is credited to the fund from revenue collected under sections 801 to 810 only to pay the necessary collection expenses incurred by the department of state in the administration and enforcement of sections 801 to 810.
    (5) The department of treasury shall expend money in the fund, upon appropriation, only to defray the costs of collecting motor fuel taxes.
    (6) The department of state shall expend money as appropriated from the fund that is credited to the fund on or after October 1, 2005 under each of the following sections of law to pay either the necessary collection of expenses incurred by the department of state in the administration and enforcement of sections 801 to 810 or other necessary expenses:
    (a) Sections 208b and 232.
    (b) Section 7 of 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.297.
    (c) Sections 80130, 80315, 81114, and 82156 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.80130, 324.80315, 324.81114, and 324.82156.
    (7) The department of state shall, by January 1 of each year, file a report with the secretary of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives providing an itemized list of deposits into and expenditures from the fund for the preceding fiscal year.
    (8) The state transportation department shall review all funds received by the state transportation department from funding sources provided for under this act to determine whether those funds can be used to leverage additional federal funds.


History: Add. 2003, Act 152, Eff. Oct. 1, 2003 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 52, Eff. May 1, 2004 ;-- Am. 2005, Act 141, Imd. Eff. Sept. 29, 2005 ;-- Am. 2006, Act 549, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 2006 ;-- Am. 2009, Act 99, Imd. Eff. Sept. 30, 2009



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