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168A.29 FEES.
    Subdivision 1. Amounts. (a) The department must be paid the following fees:
    (1) for filing an application for and the issuance of an original certificate of title, the sum
of $6.25 of which $3.25 must be paid into the vehicle services operating account of the special
revenue fund under section 299A.705;
    (2) for each security interest when first noted upon a certificate of title, including the
concurrent notation of any assignment thereof and its subsequent release or satisfaction, the sum
of $2, except that no fee is due for a security interest filed by a public authority under section
168A.05, subdivision 8;
    (3) for the transfer of the interest of an owner and the issuance of a new certificate of title,
the sum of $5.50 of which $2.50 must be paid into the vehicle services operating account of the
special revenue fund under section 299A.705;
    (4) for each assignment of a security interest when first noted on a certificate of title, unless
noted concurrently with the security interest, the sum of $1;
    (5) for issuing a duplicate certificate of title, the sum of $7.25 of which $3.25 must be paid
into the vehicle services operating account of the special revenue fund under section 299A.705.
    (b) After June 30, 1994, in addition to each of the fees required under paragraph (a), clauses
(1) and (3), the department must be paid $3.50. The additional $3.50 fee collected under this
paragraph must be deposited in the special revenue fund and credited to the public safety motor
vehicle account established in section 299A.70.
    Subd. 2. Fee in lieu of other fee. If a person applies for an original or a new certificate of
title to a vehicle, concurrently with an application, as transferee, of registration of the vehicle,
the fee prescribed in subdivision 1 must be in lieu of the fee prescribed by section 168.54, with
respect to any transfer of ownership or registration of the vehicle to the applicant.
    Subd. 3. No certificate issued until fees paid. Subject to subdivision 2, the department
shall not issue a certificate of title to a vehicle until all fees prescribed by sections 168.54 and
168A.10, subdivision 6, with respect to any prior transfer of ownership or registration of the
vehicle have been paid.
History: 1971 c 162 s 29; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 209 art 2 s 22; 1994 c 632 art 1 s 4; 1995
c 257 art 1 s 9; 1997 c 159 art 2 s 16; 1Sp2003 c 19 art 2 s 26; 1Sp2005 c 6 art 2 s 33; 2007
c 143 art 3 s 2

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