1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; motor vehicles; providing for option to register towed 
1.3 	recreational vehicles on a three-year cycle;amending Minnesota Statutes 2014, 
1.4 	section 168.013, subdivision 1g.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 168.013, subdivision 1g, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subd. 1g.Recreational vehicle. (a) Self-propelled recreational vehicles shall must
1.8 	be separately licensed and taxed annually on the basis of total gross weight and. The 
1.9 	tax shall must be graduated according to the Minnesota base rate schedule prescribed 
1.10 	in subdivision 1e, but in no event less than $20, except as otherwise provided in this 
1.11 	subdivision.
1.12 	(b) For all self-propelled recreational vehicles, the tax for the ninth and succeeding 
1.13 	years of vehicle life shall be is 75 percent of the tax imposed in the Minnesota base rate 
1.14 	schedule.
1.15 	(c) Towed recreational vehicles shall must be separately licensed and taxed either: 
1.16 	(1)  annually on the basis of total gross weight at 30 percent of the Minnesota base rate 
1.17 	prescribed in subdivision 1e or (2) once every three years on the basis of total gross 
1.18 	weight at 90 percent of the Minnesota base rate prescribed in subdivision 1e, but in no 
1.19 	event less than $5.
1.20 	(d) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all trailers and semitrailers taxed 
1.21 	pursuant to this section shall be are exempt from any wheelage tax now or hereafter 
1.22 	imposed by any political subdivision or political subdivisions.

1.23 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment, 
1.24 	and applies to taxes payable for a registration period starting on or after January 1, 2016.