West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 91 - Motor Vehicles › Title 91 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES › Series 91-02 - Rules And Regulations › Section 91-2-5 - Issuance of Temporary Registration Card

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
5.1. The installation of a data processing
				system in the Department of Motor Vehicles for the purpose of printing the
				various documents issued by the department, including applications for license,
				has created problems that effect the public and the Department of Motor
				Vehicles in the administration of the registration provisions of the
				Code.
5.2. The problems involved
				would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a temporary
				registration card to applicants or their agent who presents an application in
				person to the department for a certificate of title and license or any other
				type of application for license that is not accompanied by a standard form of
				application. The temporary registration card is designed to permit the owner to
				operate a vehicle legally on the highways pending the receipt of the standard
				registration card from the Department of Motor Vehicles.
5.3. The temporary registration card would be
				issued on any transaction that would require a license plate of any class or
				transfer of a license from one vehicle to another, an application for
				additional gross weight, exchange from one class of license to another class of
				license, or an application for a duplicate license plate. If the transaction
				requires the issuance of a new license plate, such plate will be valid for the
				period of time in effect at the time the application was made.
5.4. No temporary registration card will be
				issued unless all of the taxes and other fees that are a prerequisite to
				registering a vehicle in this state have been paid. The temporary registration
				card will serve as evidence that a valid license plate has been issued for the
				vehicle described thereon and that the required fees have been paid to the
				Department of Motor Vehicles. The temporary registration cards will be valid
				for sixty days from the date of issuance printed or stamped on the face of the
				card. On or before the expiration of the period of sixty days, an
				electronically produced registration card will be furnished to the applicant,
				upon receipt of which the temporary registration card may be destroyed.
The temporary registration card shall contain the following
				  information:
(1) The class and number
				of license plate involved in the transaction.
(2) The weight of the vehicle if a passenger
				vehicle, or the declared gross weight if a truck, truck tractor, or combination
				truck tractor and trailer or semi-trailer.
(3) If the transaction is a transfer of
				license, the card will show the title number and the vehicle identification
				number of the vehicle the license plate is being transferred to. If the
				transaction is a change of classification, the temporary registration card will
				show the title number and class and number of the license plate that was issued
				in exchange for another class of license.
(4) The date the temporary registration card
				was issued.