No. HB 37
Filed under Local Government.
Removal, Storage, and Cleanup of Electric Vehicles; Requires counties to establish daily administration fee for proper storage of certain electric vehicles; authorizes municipalities to establish daily administration fee for proper storage of certain electric vehicles; provides maximum amount for such fees; defines "daily administration fee" & "proper storage"; provides that motor vehicle insurers are not required to pay certain costs; provides that reasonable fee for service includes any daily administration fee.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDCounties must charge a daily administration fee -- up to three times the normal towing-storage rate -- to store an electric vehicle after an accident, if the owner didn't personally arrange for its removal.
Municipalities can set their own version of this fee instead, and once they do, the county's fee stops applying inside city limits.
The fee only applies if the vehicle is kept at least 50 feet from anything combustible, or behind a protective barrier -- otherwise it can't be charged at all.
Insurers don't have to cover this fee beyond what the policyholder's contract already promises, so any gap could fall on the vehicle owner.
AICounties must establish a daily administration fee -- up to three times the amount set under paragraph (c) -- for properly storing an electric vehicle involved in an accident, but only when the owner is incapacitated, unavailable, leaves towing to police at the scene, or otherwise doesn't consent to the vehicle's removal.
AIA new statute clarifies that nothing in the county or municipal storage-fee provisions requires a motor vehicle insurer to pay any cost beyond what its contract with the insured already covers.
AIMunicipalities may adopt their own daily administration fee instead of the county's, and once a municipality does, the county's fee ordinance stops applying inside that municipality's boundaries.
AIThe daily administration fee may not be charged at all unless the damaged electric vehicle is kept at least 50 feet from combustibles and structures on all sides, or behind a barrier of earth, steel, concrete, or solid masonry.
AIThe daily administration fee is added to the reasonable fees a towing-storage operator may charge under the vehicle-lien statute, tying it into the existing lien and fee-collection framework for towed vehicles.