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Proponents urge fee increase for snowmobile registrations after processing costs cut grooming fund
Summary
Supporters told the Senate Transportation Committee SB 15-65 would raise two-year snowmobile registration from $10 to $30 to restore grooming-fund revenues after DMV processing costs increased from $6.27 to $14; committee closed the hearing and set the bill over to be taken up Monday, with fiscal paperwork pending.
At a Feb. 9 hearing the Senate Committee on Transportation heard testimony on SB 15-65, a bill that would raise the two-year snowmobile registration fee from $10 to $30.
Bruce Star (on the record) and Daryl Fuller of the Oregon State Snowmobile Association explained that the existing $10 two-year fee has been in statute for decades, and that DMV processing costs recently rose such that ODOT began deducting a larger processing fee from the dedicated grooming…
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