2015 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation
RS 32:8 - Final delinquent debt; office of motor vehicles
§8. Final delinquent debt; office of motor vehicles
A. For purposes of this Section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) "Debt" means any legally collectible liquidated sum due and owed to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor vehicles, pursuant to R.S. 32:57.1, 863, or 863.1.
(2) "Delinquent debt" means a debt that is sixty days or more past due.
(3) "Final" means the amount due is no longer negotiable and that the debtor has no further right of administrative and judicial review.
(4) "Office of motor vehicles" means the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor vehicles.
B. The office of motor vehicles shall refer all final delinquent debts to the office of debt recovery as provided in R.S. 47:1676. Final delinquent debt referrals shall include data and information in the required format necessary to institute collection procedures. All delinquent debts shall be authenticated by the office of motor vehicles prior to being referred to the office of debt recovery. Once the delinquent debt becomes final, and prior to referral to the office of debt recovery, the office of motor vehicles shall notify the debtor in writing that failure to pay the debt in full within sixty days shall subject the debt to the maximum amount owed together with the additional fee collected by the office of debt recovery provided for in R.S. 47:1676. All funds collected pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall be deposited into the Debt Recovery Fund and utilized for the office of state police in the amount of twenty-five million dollars.
C. The office of motor vehicles may promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act necessary to implement the provisions of this Section, including rules for referring final delinquent debt.
Acts 2015, No. 414, §1.
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