Current Status Bill Number:3093 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19970114 Primary Sponsor:Inabinett All Sponsors:Inabinett Drafted Document Number:DKA\3889CM.97 Residing Body:House Current Committee:Education and Public Works Committee 21 HEPW Subject:Boat, farm, pole, utility trailers; registration and licensing fees, motor vehicles, license plates, watercraft
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved
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House 19970114 Introduced, read first time, 21 HEPW
referred to Committee
House 19961218 Prefiled, referred to Committee 21 HEPW
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TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 56-3-705 SO AS TO PROVIDE REGISTRATION AND LICENSING FEES FOR CERTAIN BOAT TRAILERS, FARM TRAILERS, UTILITY TRAILERS, SEMITRAILERS, AND POLE TRAILERS, AND TO PROVIDE HOW THESE FEES MUST BE USED; TO AMEND SECTION 56-3-700, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO FEES AND FEE EXCEPTIONS FOR CERTAIN TRAILERS, SEMITRAILERS, AND POLE TRAILERS, SO AS TO ELIMINATE THE EXCEPTIONS; AND TO REPEAL SECTION 56-3-130 RELATING TO THE EXEMPTION FROM LICENSING AND REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN BOAT, FARM, AND UTILITY TRAILERS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 56-3-705. (A) The biennial registration and licensing fee is twenty dollars for every:
(1) boat trailer under twenty-five hundred pounds;
(2) farm trailer except a farm trailer:
(a) transporting hogs or cows to and from a local market exclusively;
(b) transporting cotton exclusively; or
(c) used exclusively on a farm and does not travel more than a one-mile radius from the farm;
(3) utility trailers which are privately owned and not for hire;
(4) semitrailers or pole trailers weighing less than five hundred pounds with load capacity of less than one thousand pounds;
(5) trailers and semitrailers carrying a load capacity not exceeding twenty-five hundred pounds and which are designed, adapted, and used exclusively for agriculture, horticulture, or livestock-raising operations or for lifting or carrying an implement of husbandry.
(B) Notwithstanding another provision of law, the department shall remit registration and licensing fees collected pursuant to subsection (A) to the state general fund. The fees must be used:
(1) to build and maintain public docks and piers;
(2) for clean-up projects along public river-front areas; and
(3) for the stocking of fish in streams and rivers."
SECTION 2. Section 56-3-700 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Section 22L, Part II, Act 164 of 1993, is further amended to read:
"Section 56-3-700. For every trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer, the biennial registration fee is twenty dollars. The department must include in this classification every trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer designed for carrying property, except house trailers, utility trailers, and boat trailers, as otherwise provided in this article. semitrailers, or pole trailers weighing less than five hundred pounds with load capacity of less than one thousand pounds and trailers and semitrailers with an actual unloaded weight of fifteen hundred pounds or less and carrying a load capacity not exceeding twenty-five hundred pounds and which are designed, adapted, and used exclusively for agriculture, horticulture, or livestock-raising operations or for lifting or carrying an implement of husbandry need not be registered or licensed as otherwise provided in this article."
SECTION 3. Section 56-3-130 of the 1976 Code is repealed.
SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.