2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 30 - FISH
Chapter 53 - Registration and Titling of Boats
Section 5304 - Issuing agents

     § 5304.  Issuing agents.
        (a)  Designation.--The commission may designate as issuing
     agents the county treasurer (or in counties where, by virtue of
     an optional plan of government or home rule charter, there is no
     county treasurer, the official who performs the ordinary
     functions of a county treasurer) or such other persons in each
     county, as it deems advantageous, to provide for the issuance of
     boat registrations in accordance with the provisions of this
     subchapter.
        (b)  Fee.--For all services rendered in collecting and paying
     over registration fees, each issuing agent shall charge and
     retain an additional fee not exceeding $2 from the person
     securing the registration. If the issuing agent is a county
     treasurer or other official who performs that function, the fee
     shall be retained for the use of the county.
        (c)  Bond.--Every issuing agent shall give bond to the
     Commonwealth, in a sum determined by the executive director,
     before any supply of registration forms is delivered to him.
        (d)  Disposition of moneys.--Every issuing agent shall
     forward all moneys collected, along with all appropriate forms,
     to the commission within ten days after receipt of each and
     every registration. Delinquent agents are subject to a penalty
     of 10% per month or portion of a month on any outstanding
     balance of registration money due the commission which is not
     paid when due, which penalty shall be compounded monthly. The
     commission may recall the agency of any issuing agent after a
     delinquency period of 30 days.
        (d.1)  Rules and regulations.--The commission may promulgate
     such rules and regulations to control and supervise the issuance
     and transfer of boat registrations by issuing agents as it deems
     necessary. The commission may establish administrative fees for
     boat registration issuing agents. County treasurers shall be
     exempt from payment of any administrative fee established by the
     commission.
        (e)  Penalty.--An issuing agent violating subsection (d)
     commits a summary offense of the first degree. Any issuing agent
     violating any other provision of this section or the rules and
     regulations of the commission commits a summary offense of the
     third degree. In addition to the penalty provided in this
     subsection, any issuing agent violating any provision of this
     title may have his agency recalled in the discretion of the
     commission.
     (Dec. 22, 1989, P.L.735, No.102, eff. Jan. 1, 1990; July 2,
     1996, P.L.467, No.73; Nov. 3, 1999, P.L.447, No.41, eff. Jan. 1,
     2000; Dec. 20, 2000, P.L.828, No.115, eff. imd.)

        2000 Amendment.  Act 115 amended subsec. (d.1).
        1999 Amendment.  Act 41 amended subsec. (e) and added subsec.
     (d.1).
        1996 Amendment.  Section 4(3) of Act 73 provided that the
     amendment of section 5304 shall take effect six months after the
     effective date of regulations promulgated under the authority of
     section 5325.