Bill Text: AZ SB1332 | 2019 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 1st Regular | Chaptered
Bill Title: Alternative fuel vehicles; VLT
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Chapter 313 [SB1332 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2019-SB1332-Chaptered.html
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-fourth Legislature First Regular Session 2019
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CHAPTER 313
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SENATE BILL 1332 |
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AN ACT
amending section 28‑5805, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by laws 2018, chapter 265, section 2; relating to the vehicle license tax.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 28-5805, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by Laws 2018, chapter 265, section 2, is amended to read:
28-5805. Motor vehicle powered by alternative fuel; classification; vehicle license tax; definitions
A. A separate classification of motor vehicles is established for purposes of taxation pursuant to article IX, section 11, Constitution of Arizona, that consists of motor vehicles that are powered by alternative fuel and for which the department issues an alternative fuel vehicle special plate or sticker pursuant to section 28‑2416.
B. Notwithstanding section 28‑5801, the registering officer shall collect at the time of application for and before registration of the motor vehicle that is classified under this section an annual license tax of four dollars $4 for each one hundred dollars $100 in value. The motor vehicle value is determined as follows:
1. For a motor vehicle that is purchased registered in this state before January 1, 2020 2022, the value of the motor vehicle is a percentage set by the director one percent of the manufacturer's base retail price of the motor vehicle. After the first twelve months of the life of the motor vehicle as determined by its initial registration, the value of the motor vehicle is fifteen percent less for each twelve-month period than the manufacturer's base retail price of the motor vehicle value for the preceding twelve‑month period.
2. For a motor vehicle that is ten thousand pounds or less gross vehicle weight and that is purchased on or after initially registered in this state between January 1, 2020 2022 and december 31, 2022, during the first twelve months of the life of the motor vehicle as determined by its initial registration, the value of the motor vehicle is thirty twenty percent of the manufacturer's base retail price of the motor vehicle. During each succeeding twelve‑month period, the value of the motor vehicle is fifteen percent less than the value for the preceding twelve‑month period.
C. The registering officer shall collect the vehicle license tax on a motor vehicle that is powered by alternative fuel and that is purchased from and after December 31, 2022 in accordance with section 28‑5801.
C. D. The minimum amount of the license tax computed under this section is five dollars $5 per year for each motor vehicle subject to the tax.
D. E. Except as specifically provided in this section, the vehicle license tax on a motor vehicle classified under this section is governed by this article.
E. The vehicle license tax on a motor vehicle that exceeds ten thousand pounds gross vehicle weight, that is powered by alternative fuel and that is purchased on or after January 1, 2020 is collected pursuant to section 28‑5801.
F. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Alternative fuel" has the same meaning prescribed in section 1‑215.
2. "Motor vehicle" means a vehicle that meets the safety standards of the national highway traffic safety administration and includes neighborhood electric vehicles that meet the standards prescribed in 49 Code of Federal Regulations section 571.500, except that, if a vehicle is designed to be operated at speeds of twenty miles per hour or less, the vehicle is not required to have a seventeen digit vehicle identification number.
Sec. 2. Effective date
Section 28‑5805, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by Laws 2018, chapter 265, section 2 and this act, is effective from and after December 31, 2019.
APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR JUNE 7, 2019.
FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE JUNE 7, 2019.
