2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .150   Applicants to apply in person -- Fees.

281A.150 Applicants to apply in person -- Fees. (1) Every person seeking a commercial driver's license or a commercial driver's instruction permit shall first apply in person to the circuit clerk of the county in which the applicant resides or in the county where the person is enrolled in a driver training school if the applicant is not a resident. The application shall be in the form prescribed by KRS 281A.140 as provided by the cabinet. Except as provided in KRS 281A.160(6), each time a person applies for a commercial driver's license, an instruction permit, or seeks to upgrade or change his commercial driver's license, the person shall be required to: (a)  Update the application; and (b)  Submit the appropriate fee to the circuit clerk. (2) The cabinet shall set fees by administrative regulation, pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A, for the following applications that shall not exceed: (a)  Forty dollars ($40) for each application for a commercial driver's license. The fee shall be based on the class, type of license, endorsement, restriction, or tests to be taken; (b)  Thirty-five dollars ($35) for each application for a commercial driver's instruction permit; (c)  Fifteen dollars ($15) for each application for a change or addition in class or type of license, endorsement, or restriction; (d)  Forty dollars ($40) for each application for a duplicate if it is the first duplicate applied for within the time period for which the original license was issued. Sixty dollars ($60) for a second or subsequent duplicate applied for within the time period for which the original license was issued. The fees required for a duplicate shall be in addition to fees charged under subsection (2)(c) of this section; (e)  Thirty-five dollars ($35) for each application for renewal of a commercial driver's license; (f)  Sixty dollars ($60) for each application for a transfer of a commercial driver's license; and (g)  Twenty dollars ($20) for each application for a commercial driver's license with an "S" restriction for the following persons: 1. A person who operates a school bus; 2. A person who is employed by a mass transit authority created under the provisions of KRS Chapter 96A; 3. A person who drives a vehicle that is operated under a nonprofit bus certificate established pursuant to KRS 281.619; 4. A person who drives a vehicle registered pursuant to KRS 186.050(6); or 5. A person who drives a fixed route bus system vehicle that is operated by a public entity pursuant to the provisions of KRS Chapter 281. (3) All fees remitted to the clerk shall be nonrefundable regardless of whether the applicant completes the requirements for a commercial driver's license or is tested. (4) All fees collected for the issuance of a commercial driver's license or a commercial driver's instruction permit shall be deposited into trust and agency accounts to be used exclusively for the administration and implementation of this chapter, except as prescribed in subsection (5) of this section. The accounts shall not lapse but shall be continuing from year to year. (5) All fees collected pursuant to this section, shall be allocated between the Transportation Cabinet and Department of State Police, except a fifty cent ($0.50) issuance fee shall be allocated during the first two (2) years following the effective date of January 1, 1991, to the Administrative Office of the Courts in a trust and agency account for the use of the circuit clerks and thereafter allocated to the general fund from issuance of a commercial driver's license permit. A three dollar ($3) issuance fee shall be allocated during the first two (2) years following the effective date of January 1, 1991, to the Administrative Office of the Courts in a trust and agency account for the use of the circuit clerks and thereafter allocated to the general fund from issuance of a commercial driver's license. (6) Any applicant who seeks reinstatement of his commercial driving privilege after a suspension, withdrawal, revocation, or disqualification shall pay a reinstatement fee of fifty dollars ($50) in addition to those fees required by subsection (2) of this section and shall satisfy the requirements of KRS 281A.160. This fee shall not be required if his commercial driving privilege was withdrawn only as a result of the withdrawal of his privilege to drive a noncommercial motor vehicle. Effective: April 5, 2002 History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 204, sec. 7, effective April 5, 2002. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 11, sec. 2, effective February 20, 1992; and ch. 274, sec. 4, effective April 7, 1992. -- Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 455, sec. 15, effective January 1, 1991.