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Committee approves online purchase, longer validity for one-movement vehicle permits
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Summary
The committee adopted a strike-and-insert amendment to allow online purchase of one-movement temporary vehicle permits, extend their validity from 48 to 96 hours, permit electronic fees and delivery, and reported the amended House Bill 21 57 to the full Senate with recommendation to pass.
The Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted to report an engrossed committee substitute for House Bill 21 57, as amended, recommending passage. Counsel explained the substitute requires the commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles to allow online purchase of one-movement temporary permits (commonly called "one movement stickers") that permit transporting an unregistered vehicle on public roads.
Key changes in the committee substitute explained by counsel include: allowing online purchase of one-movement stickers subject to the same fee as paper stickers issued by the West Virginia State Police; doubling the validity period from the current 48 hours to 96 hours from issuance; allowing the sticker to be provided electronically for home printing or as another commissioner-prescribed form; permitting electronic fee remittance; and clarifying that a one-movement sticker may not be used as evidence of vehicle ownership, a change prompted by a state trooper's recommendation to reduce fraud risk.
The committee adopted the strike-and-insert amendment by voice vote, then voted to report the engrossed committee substitute for House Bill 21 57 as amended with a recommendation that it do pass. The chair declared the motion adopted. No roll-call tally is recorded in the committee transcript.
