Homemade trailer titles.

WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0604

HOUSE BILL
NO.

HB0238

Homemade trailer

titl
es
.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Greear

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
motor vehicles; removing titling requirements for specified homemade trailers;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S.
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102(
a) by creating a new paragraph (vii), 31
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103(a)(vi) and 31
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225(c)
by creating a new paragraph (ii)

are amended to read:

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102.

Exemptions.

(a)

No certificat
e of title shall be issued for:

(vii)

Homemade trailers that have no
identifying number
and which
have an
unladen

weigh
t

of
one
thousand (1,000) pounds or less.

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103.

Contents of application; signature; vehicle identification number; issuance of certificate.

(a)

Applications for paper certificates of title or electronic certificates of title, if available, shall be under oath and contain or be accompanied by:

(vi)

In the case of a vehicle registered or titled in a state other than Wyoming, or any

nonexempt
homemade vehicle,
rebuilt vehicle, reconstructed vehicle, any vehicle assembled from a kit or any vehicle for which a bond is required, a current statement made by a Wyoming law enforcement officer, or licensed Wyoming dealer only for vehicles in his inventory or possession, that the vehicle identification number on the vehicle has been inspected and that the inspection occurred in Wyoming and certifying the correct vehicle identification number displayed on the vehicle. Any licensed Wyoming dealer performing an inspection of a vehicle identification number under this section shall, in addition to the requirements of this act, do so pursuant to W.S. 31
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108. In the case of a vehicle not in Wyoming, the vehicle identification number may be inspected and certified on a form approved by the
department if the inspection is made by an authorized law enforcement officer of a city, county or state law enforcement agency or a commissioned officer at a federal military installation or any other person authorized to do so by law and delivered to the county clerk in the county where the application for certificate of title is made along with payment for the inspection fee required under W.S. 31
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102(b)(iv);

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225.

Application requirements; contents; weight certificate; title requirement; liability.

(c)

County treasurers shall not register nor renew the registration of a vehicle unless a certificate of title has been issued to the owner or the owner presents satisfactory evidence that a certificate of title for the vehicle has been previously issued to the owner by any county clerk except:

(ii)

A county treasurer may register a vehi
cle without the Wyoming title of
an applicant
who is an owner, le
ssee or operator if the vehicle is not required to have a title
and the owner, lessee or operator
submits an affidavit of ownership on a form prescribed by the
department that shall be signed and sworn before a person who is authorized to administer oaths and affirmations.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2013.

(END)

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