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Texas Transportation Code - Section 502.1745. Voluntary Fee

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§ 502.1745. VOLUNTARY FEE.  (a) The department shall 
provide to each county assessor-collector the educational 
materials for prospective donors provided as required by the Donor 
Education, Awareness, and Registry Program of Texas under Chapter 
49, Health and Safety Code.  A county assessor-collector shall make 
the educational materials available in each office authorized to 
accept applications for registration of motor vehicles.
	(b)  A county assessor-collector shall collect an additional 
fee of $1 for the registration or renewal of registration of a motor 
vehicle to pay the costs of the Donor Education, Awareness, and 
Registry Program of Texas, established under Chapter 49, Health and 
Safety Code, and of the Texas Organ, Tissue, and Eye Donor Council, 
established under Chapter 113, Health and Safety Code, if the 
person registering or renewing the registration of a motor vehicle 
opts to pay the additional fee.  Notwithstanding any other 
provision of this chapter, the county assessor-collector shall 
remit all fees collected under this subsection to the comptroller, 
who shall maintain the identity of the source of the fees.
	(c)  Three percent of all money collected under this section 
may be appropriated only to the department to administer this 
section.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 1186, § 8, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.          

Last modified: August 11, 2007