(A) The fee for a certificate of title for a watercraft is ten dollars, and the fee for a certificate of title for an outboard motor is ten dollars.
(B) If a certificate of number or decals are lost, destroyed, or become illegible, the department may issue a duplicate.
(C) The fee for providing a duplicate document or decal is five dollars.
(D) The provisions of this section requiring a fee do not apply to the watercraft owned by volunteer rescue squads used exclusively for the purpose of the squads.
(E) The department must not issue a duplicate document for a certificate of number decal, certificate of number card, outboard motor decal, or watercraft title decal if the department has notice that ad valorem taxes are due.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 70-295.107; 1971 (57) 915; 1977 Act No. 216, Section 2; 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 54B; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1270; 1999 Act No. 100, Part II, Section 64.E; 1999 Act No. 124, Section 2.R; 2008 Act No. 344, Section 10, eff six months after approval (approved June 11, 2008); 2018 Act No. 223 (H.4715), Section 2, eff January 1, 2020.
Code Commissioner's Note
At the direction of the Code Commissioner, the amendments to Section 50-23-70(A) by 1999 Act 100, Section 64.E, and Act 124, Section 2.R, were read together.
Effect of Amendment
The 2008 amendment rewrote subsection (A), raising the fee from five to ten dollars; added subsections (B) and (C) relating to duplicate certificates; and redesignated subsection (B) as subsection (D).
2018 Act No. 223, Section 2, added (E), prohibiting the department from issuing duplicate decals when ad valorem taxes are outstanding.