AB 559

Under current law, a group or organization that meets certain criteria may

apply to the Department of Transportation (DOT) for designation as an authorized

special group. If the application is approved, members of the authorized special

group may obtain special registration plates for certain vehicles, including

automobiles and motor homes, that are owned or leased by special group members.

2009 Wisconsin Act 230

established an authorized special group for women veterans.

This bill repeals the authorization of a general special group for women

veterans and establishes more specific authorized special groups for any woman

veteran of each branch of the armed services.

Under current law, a vehicle owner who creates a security interest in the vehicle

must deliver (or have the person in possession deliver) to the secured party the

vehicle's certificate of title and execute the certificate of title or other specified

documentation identifying the name and address of the secured party, unless the

secured party's name and address is already identified on the certificate of title. The

secured party must then provide the certificate of title and any such documentation

to DOT, except that, if the secured party is an entity rather than an individual and

is not exempted by DOT rule, the secured party must destroy the certificate of title

and electronically file a security interest statement with DOT. Upon receipt of the

certificate of title from an individual secured party or a security interest statement

from a secured party that is an entity, DOT must issue to the vehicle owner a new

certificate of title containing the name and address of the secured party. DOT may

issue and maintain the official certificate of title in an electronic or digital form. DOT

must also deliver to the secured party, unless the secured party is an entity, and to

the county register of deeds, memoranda evidencing the notation of the security

interest on the certificate of title. Registers of deeds may record and maintain files

of these memoranda received from DOT.

This bill eliminates the requirement that DOT provide to registers of deeds the

memoranda evidencing the notation of a security interest on a vehicle certificate of

title. The bill eliminates the specific authority for registers of deeds to record and

maintain files of these memoranda received from DOT.

Under current law, DOT may not knowingly issue more than one motor vehicle

operator's license to a person and, with limited exceptions, a person may not have

more than one operator's license, including having licenses from more than one state,

having licenses under more than one name, and having different licenses for the

operation of different types of vehicles. However, a person may hold more than one

operator's license for ten days from the date on which a license is issued.

This bill eliminates the exception allowing, for a ten-day period after issuance

of an operator's license, a person to hold more than one license.

Current law requires DOT to operate a motor vehicle emission inspection and