8-145. Collection of fees; disposition of moneys; compensation of county treasurers; highway patrol motor vehicle fund; VIPS/CAMA technology hardware fund; repossessed certificates of title fee fund; division of vehicles modernization fund. (a) All registration and certificates of title fees shall be paid to the county treasurer of the county in which the applicant for registration resides or has an office or principal place of business within this state, and the county treasurer shall issue a receipt in triplicate, on blanks furnished by the division of vehicles, one copy of which shall be filed in the county treasurer's office, one copy shall be delivered to the applicant and the original copy shall be forwarded to the director of vehicles.

(b) The county treasurer shall deposit $.75 of each license application, $.75 out of each application for transfer of license plate and $2 out of each application for a certificate of title, collected by such treasurer under this act, in a special fund, which fund is hereby appropriated for the use of the county treasurer in paying for necessary help and expenses incidental to the administration of duties in accordance with the provisions of this law and extra compensation to the county treasurer for the services performed in administering the provisions of this act, which compensation shall be in addition to any other compensation provided by any other law, except that the county treasurer shall receive as additional compensation for administering the motor vehicle title and registration laws and fees, a sum computed as follows: The county treasurer, during the month of December, shall determine the amount to be retained for extra compensation not to exceed the following amounts each year for calendar year 2006 or any calendar year thereafter: The sum of $110 per hundred registrations for the first 5,000 registrations; the sum of $90 per hundred registrations for the second 5,000 registrations; the sum of $5 per hundred for the third 5,000 registrations; and the sum of $2 per hundred registrations for all registrations thereafter. In no event, however, shall any county treasurer be entitled to receive more than $15,000 additional annual compensation.

If more than one person shall hold the office of county treasurer during any one calendar year, such compensation shall be prorated among such persons in proportion to the number of weeks served. The total amount of compensation paid the treasurer together with the amounts expended in paying for other necessary help and expenses incidental to the administration of the duties of the county treasurer in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall not exceed the amount deposited in such special fund. Any balance remaining in such fund at the close of any calendar year shall be withdrawn and credited to the general fund of the county prior to June 1 of the following calendar year.

(c) The county treasurer shall remit the remainder of all such fees collected, together with the original copy of all applications, to the secretary of revenue. The secretary of revenue shall remit all such fees remitted to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the state highway fund, except as provided in subsection (d).

(d) (1) Three dollars and fifty cents of each certificate of title fee collected and remitted to the secretary of revenue, shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall credit such $3.50 to the Kansas highway patrol motor vehicle fund. Three dollars of each certificate of title fee collected and remitted to the secretary of revenue, shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall credit such $3 to the VIPS/CAMA technology hardware fund.

(2) For repossessed vehicles, $3 of each certificate of title fee collected and remitted to the secretary of revenue, shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall credit such $3 to the repossessed certificates of title fee fund.

(3) Three dollars and fifty cents of each reassignment form fee collected and remitted to the secretary of revenue, shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall credit such $3.50 to the Kansas highway patrol motor vehicle fund. Three dollars of each reassignment form fee collected and remitted to the secretary of revenue, shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall credit such $3 to the VIPS/CAMA technology hardware fund.

(4) Until January 1, 2013, $4 of each division of vehicles modernization surcharge collected and remitted to the secretary of revenue, shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall credit such $4 to the division of vehicles modernization fund, on and after January 1, 2013, the state treasurer shall credit such $4 to the state highway fund.

History: L. 1929, ch. 81, § 23; L. 1933, ch. 73, § 2; L. 1937, ch. 72, § 8; L. 1938, ch. 12, § 2; L. 1947, ch. 97, § 1; L. 1949, ch. 102, § 1; L. 1953, ch. 41, § 1; L. 1961, ch. 50, § 1; L. 1968, ch. 335, § 1; L. 1969, ch. 49, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 342, § 34; L. 1974, ch. 35, § 8; L. 1975, ch. 34, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 33, § 1; L. 1980, ch. 31, § 6; L. 1985, ch. 45, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 34, § 4; L. 1993, ch. 176, § 5; L. 1996, ch. 260, § 4; L. 1998, ch. 140, § 10; L. 1999, ch. 114, § 4; L. 2001, ch. 5, § 27; L. 2002, ch. 134, § 6; L. 2003, ch. 30, § 4; L. 2006, ch. 136, § 5; L. 2008, ch. 181, § 3; L. 2010, ch. 156, § 12; June 3.