What Does Is Cost To Register A Car In Colorado

Some added transparency has resulted in more complaints at the DMV. Until recently, Coloradans saw merely the total registration fee on the beak. Now, each individual fee is listed, line-by-line.

A computer upgrade has led to additional transparency that reveals more nearly your vehicle registration fees in Colorado.

When DMV computers were upgraded before this yr, they immune for a line-by-line description of what yous pay to annals your vehicle. Before the upgrade, you saw a lump sum.

"We got a new car, and I went to pay a new registration and information technology was $750," said Aurora resident Eric Casebolt. "There was a lot of various fees on at that place that didn't actually brand a lot of sense. I guess information technology makes me a little more concerned, seeing exactly what that money is going for."

"Bridge prophylactic. Road safety. Recently we had those on the ballot and they were declined, only then these appear, and I don't call up approving whatever of this stuff," said Casebolt.

Depending on the weight of your vehicle, the "Route Prophylactic Surcharge" is betwixt $16 and $39, and the "Bridge Rubber Surcharge" is between $13 and $32. Those two fees were added by the land legislature in 2009 to fund road and bridge repair, and since so, vehicle registration fees have provided $1.3 billion in road and bridge funding.

"They're not paying more registration fees than they're used to," said Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder Matt Crane. "We used to take complaints before because people wanted to know why their fees were so loftier and where it went to, and then now when the state provides the transparency of what the fees go to, now we go more questions from people who are like, 'What is this? Why am I paying for this?'"

1 of those other fees includes the $4 "Clerk Hire Fee."

"That'southward a fee that all counties collect for every transaction, and that fee stays with the canton to help counties pay for staff, supplies, those types of things," said Crane.

Drivers also pay 11 cents for the month sticker they have to put on their auto the first fourth dimension they register, and 17 cents for the year sticker.

"I never knew that either," Casebolt laughed.

If you become a specialty plate, you might also take to pay a fee that funds a specific cause.

For example, the "Adopt a Shelter Pet" license plate requires a fee for the plate and some other to fund the "Pet Overpopulation Fund." The pink chest cancer plate requires a fee for the plate itself and another to fund breast and cervical cancer prevention treatment.

Casebolt had 2 $25 fees for his U.S. Army specialty plate.

"That's an optional fee, so those make sense to me," he said.

And then there you have it: your fees didn't change, only the amount of transparency did.

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