Feel like paying a bit more to drive? According to our staff writer Lynn Hulsey, “It could get more expensive to get your license plates and driver’s license in Ohio.
“The Ohio House of Representatives Finance Committee on Tuesday proposed allowing county commissioners to increase the fee paid for an Ohio license plate by $5. It would increase the total cost of a passenger car plate to $39.50 and a motorcycle plate to $33.50,” she reported. “A second proposal in the state transportation budget would increase the service fee paid to the deputy registrars who run the state’s approximately 200 Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) offices. The fee would go up by $1.75 to $5.25 for services provided by the BMV, according to Lindsey Bohrer, BMV spokeswoman. She said the fee hasn’t increased since 2004.”
Hulsey talked with a spokesman for Montgomery County Auditor Karl Keith, who runs a BMV office in the county building, who said, “This issue is really being pushed by the Ohio Deputy Registrar Association.”
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