Tex. Transp. Code § 502.1911 · Subchapter E. ADMINISTRATION OF FEES
REGISTRATION PROCESSING AND HANDLING FEE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department may collect a fee, in addition to other registration fees for the issuance of a license plate, a set of license plates, or another device used as the registration insignia, to cover the expenses of collecting those registration fees, including a service charge for registration by mail.
(b) The board by rule shall set the fee in an amount that:
(1) includes the fee established under Section 502.356(a); and
(2) is sufficient to cover the expenses associated with collecting registration fees by:
(A) the department;
(B) a county tax assessor-collector;
(C) a private entity with which a county tax assessor-collector contracts under Section 502.197; or
(D) a deputy assessor-collector that is deputized in accordance with board rule under Section 520.0071.
(c) The county tax assessor-collector, a private entity with which a county tax assessor-collector contracts under Section 502.197, or a deputy assessor-collector may retain a portion of the fee collected under Subsection (b) as provided by board rule. Remaining amounts collected under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles fund.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1287 (H.B. 2202), Sec. 19, eff. September 1, 2013.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.502.htm
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Transportation Code
- Tex. Transp. Code § 502.191COLLECTION OF FEES.Printed as Section 502.1911
- Tex. Transp. Code § 502.197REGISTRATION BY MAIL OR ELECTRONIC MEANS; SERVICE CHARGE.Printed as Section 502.1911
- Tex. Transp. Code § 502.198DISPOSITION OF FEES GENERALLY.Printed as Sections 502.058, 502.060, 502.1911, 502.192, 502.356, 502.357, and 502.360
- Tex. Transp. Code § 520.006COLLECTION OF FEES ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR; COMPENSATION OF ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR.Printed as Section 502.1911
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