House Bill 783 aimed at dealerships violating temp tag laws

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Shopping for, and buying cars can be quite a hassle, and now one bill in the Kentucky legislature is looking to protect those at risk of becoming victims to a never ending cycle of temp tags.

Recently, Warren County Sheriff Brett Hightower testified to the Kentucky legislature in support of House Bill 783. House Bill 783 is looking to grant more power to those in charge of transportation in Kentucky and shoring up language, closing gaps that dealerships could have used to take advantage of people. Sheriff Hightower says that the vast majority of dealerships are law abiding businesses, however those few who are breaking the law equates to thousands of cars and thousands of dollars to those taking advantage of Kentuckians.

“Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter where you look. There’s always some folks that will, you know, try to take advantage of folks. And so, you know, with the particular ways the law was written, there was certain ways it could be levied. Fines on the Motor Vehicle Commission was kind of boxed in on some of those. So this gives a little bit more leniency on what they can do. And if people have multiple violations of this that they can actually the dealership can actually lose their license” Sheriff Hightower said.

The bill has so far received great support, from those involved in transportation in Kentucky, and from those in the house in Frankfort where the bill passed its committee vote.

“we wanted to work with all the folks that have been in this and that’s, you know, Motor Vehicle Commission or Dealers Association, which has been very helpful in this. Our Kentucky sheriffs and county clerks, so everybody kind of came to the table and we all came the same side of the table to, you know, kind of look at this legislation in hopes that we get this in the bill passed in front of our House” Hightower said.

While the bill still has a lengthy process to go through, the bills supporters are hoping to get the important legislation passed with only nine more days remaining in this legislative session.