1. (a) The commissioner shall be paid the following fees:

   1. (1) For filing an application for a certificate of title, twenty-five dollars; (2) for each security interest noted upon a certificate of title or maintained in the electronic title file pursuant to subsection (b) of section 14-175, ten dollars; (3) for each record copy search, twenty dollars; (4) for each assignment of a security interest noted upon a certificate of title or maintained in the electronic title file, ten dollars; (5) for an application for a replacement certificate of title, twenty-five dollars, provided such fee shall not be required for any such replacement certificate of title (A) which is requested on a form prepared and signed by the assessor in any town for purposes of such proof of ownership of a motor vehicle as may be required in accordance with section 12-71b, or (B) in connection with an application submitted by a licensed dealer in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) of section 14-12 or section 14-61; (6) for an ordinary certificate of title issued upon surrender of a distinctive certificate, ten dollars; (7) for filing a notice of security interest, ten dollars; (8) for a certificate of search of the records of the Department of Motor Vehicles, for each name or identification number searched against, twenty dollars; (9) for filing an assignment of security interest, ten dollars; (10) for search of a motor vehicle certificate of title record, requested by a person other than the owner of such motor vehicle, twenty dollars; and (11) for a bond filing under section 14-176, twenty-five dollars.
2. (b) If an application, certificate of title or other document required to be mailed or delivered to the commissioner under any provision of this chapter is not delivered to the commissioner within ten days from the time it is required to be mailed or delivered, the commissioner shall collect, as a penalty, an amount equal to the fee required for the transaction.
3. (c) Motor vehicles leased to an agency of this state and motor vehicles owned by the state, an agency of the state, or a municipality, as defined in section 7-245, shall be exempt from the fees imposed by this section.

(1957, P.A. 607, S. 28; 1967, P.A. 187; P.A. 75-213, S. 49, 53; P.A. 76-280; P.A. 78-348, S. 3, 6; P.A. 82-382, S. 3, 4; P.A. 83-448; 83-489, S. 12, 17; P.A. 84-254, S. 51, 62; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-13, S. 15, 21; P.A. 92-177, S. 5, 12; P. A. 02-70, S. 15; P.A. 04-182, S. 12; P.A. 08-150, S. 15; P.A. 12-81, S. 18.)

History: 1967 act raised fee for duplicate of title certificate from $1 to $3; P.A. 75-213 raised fee for first certificate application from $2 to $5; P.A. 76-280 deleted “first” in Subsec. (a)(1) and made $2 fee in Subsec. (a)(3) applicable to record copy searches rather than to certificates of title after transfers; P.A. 78-348 waived charge for duplicate title certificate when requested by town assessors, effective October 1, 1978, and applicable with respect to any motor vehicle on the assessment list of any town as of that date and any motor vehicle registered or in use in this state thereafter; P.A. 82-382 added Subsec. (c) exempting motor vehicles leased to an agency of the state from the fees imposed by this section; P.A. 83-448 provided that motor vehicles owned by the state or an agency thereof shall be exempt from the title fees specified in Subsecs. (a) and (b); P.A. 83-489 amended Subsec. (a) to increase fees as follows: For filing an application for a certificate of title, from $5 to $7, and for each security interest noted upon a certificate of title, from $1 to $2; P.A. 84-254 amended Subsec. (a) to increase periodically the fees, scheduling the increases to take effect on July first of 1985, 1989, 1991 and 1993; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-13 amended Subsec. (a) by raising fees for filing a security interest on a certificate of title to $10, for a duplicate certificate of title to $15, established a fee of $10 for searching for certificate of title record for any one other than the owner, designated editorially as Subdiv. (10), and made technical changes, deleting obsolete fee increases; P.A. 92-177 amended Subsec. (a) to increase fee for duplicate certificate of title from $15 to $25; (Revisor's note: In 1997 references throughout the general statutes to “Motor Vehicle(s) Commissioner” and “Motor Vehicle(s) Department” were replaced editorially by the Revisors with “Commissioner of Motor Vehicles” or “Department of Motor Vehicles”, as the case may be, for consistency with customary statutory usage); P.A. 02-70 amended Subsec. (a) to eliminate provisions re fees applicable prior to July 1, 1993, to add in Subdivs. (2) and (4) language re security interests maintained in the electronic title file, to add in Subdiv. (5) language re applications submitted by a licensed dealer in accordance with Sec. 14-12(c) or Sec. 14-61, and to add Subdiv. (11) re fee for a bond filing under Sec. 14-176, and amended Subsec. (c) to make a technical change, effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 04-182 amended Subsec. (a) to increase fee from $7 to $20 in Subdiv. (3), increase fee from $3.50 to $10 in Subdivs. (4),(6), (7), and (9), increase fee from $17.50 to $20 in Subdiv. (8), and increase fee from $10 to $20 in Subdiv. (10), effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 08-150 amended Subsec. (c) to exempt motor vehicles owned by a municipality as defined in Sec. 7-245; P.A. 12-81 amended Subsec. (a)(5) to substitute “replacement” for “duplicate”, effective January 1, 2013.