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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
November 9, 2023 - Introduced by Senators Quinn,
Ballweg and Wanggaard,
cosponsored by Representatives
Callahan, Armstrong, Behnke, Bodden,
Dittrich, Doyle, Edming, Moses, Rozar, Schmidt and Jacobson. Referred to
Committee on Transportation and Local Government.
SB654,1,3
1An Act relating to: modifying administrative rules of the Department of
2Transportation relating to applications for vehicle titles by nonresident
3insurance carriers.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law generally, a nonresident is prohibited from applying for a
certificate of title for a motor vehicle unless authorized by Department of
Transportation administrative rules. Current DOT administrative rules permit a
nonresident to apply for a certificate of title under certain circumstances, one of
which is if that nonresident is an insurance company that acquires ownership of a
vehicle through payment of a total loss claim. These companies may apply only for
salvage vehicle certificates of title for such vehicles.
This bill provides that an insurance company headquartered and with a
business address in another state in this country may also apply for a certificate of
title or any other title issued by DOT for the vehicle.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SB654,1
4Section
1. Trans 154.13 (2) (a) 7. of the administrative code is amended to read:
SB654,2,45
Trans 154.13
(2) (a) 7. The nonresident is an insurance company
6headquartered in another state in this country with a business address located in
1another state in this country that acquires ownership of a vehicle titled in Wisconsin
2through payment of a total loss claim and the insurance company makes application
3for
a certificate of title, a salvage vehicle certificate of title
, or any other title issued
4by the department for the vehicle.
SB654,2
5Section
2.
Initial applicability.
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(1) This act first applies to applications that are received by the department of
7transportation on the effective date of this subsection.
