Automobiles and recreational vehicles: registration fees.

Existing law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor vehicle or trailer, including recreational vehicle, unless it is registered, and requires a registration fee to be paid to the Department of Motor Vehicles for the registration of each vehicle or trailer coach, except those vehicles that are expressly exempted from the payment of registration fees. This bill would, beginning on January 1, 2027, exempt from the payment of registration fees an automobile or recreational vehicle, as defined, owned by a person who verifies to the department, on an annual basis, that they are homeless and using the automobile or recreational vehicle as their residence. The bill would authorize a homeless services provider, as defined, that has knowledge of the person's housing status to verify that status for this purpose.