Alabama Administrative Code
Title 770 - ALABAMA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Chapter 770-X-10 - MOTOR CARRIER GENERAL ORDERS AND REGULATIONS PAMPHLET NO. 2003
Section 770-X-10-.03-2-.02 - Single State Registration Receipts
Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 5, February 29, 2024
(1) All motors carriers that have operations in interstate commerce within the borders of Alabama under a certificate of public convenience and necessity and/or a permit issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall comply with these provisions concerning Single State Registration Receipts.
(2) All motor carriers described in 770-X-10-3-2.02(1) who maintain their principal place of business in Alabama shall select Alabama as their registration state under the Single State Registration System. Carriers who maintain their principal place of business in a state which does not participate in the Single State Registration System may elect Alabama as their registration state provided Alabama is the participating state in which such carrier will operate the largest number of motor vehicles during the next registration year. For purposes of this rule, a carrier's principal place of business shall be the state in which the carrier maintains its headquarters and where it maintains or can make available its operational records.
(3) A carrier must make supplemental filings at any time during the registration year as may be necessary to specify additional vehicles and/or states of operation and to pay additional fees.
(4) Upon each carriers compliance with the annual or supplemental registration requirements set out in 770-X-10-.03 -2.02(b), the Commission will issue the carrier a receipt reflecting that the carrier has filed the required proof of insurance and paid all required fees. Said receipt will identify the carrier and specify the states for which fees were paid. Supplemental receipts issued will contain only information relating to their underlying supplemental registrations. All receipts shall expire at midnight on the thirty-first day of December of the registration year for which they were issued.
(5) A carrier is permitted to operate its motor vehicles only in those participating states with respect to which it has paid appropriate fees.
(6) A motor carrier may make copies of receipts only to the extent necessary to maintain in each of its motor vehicles a copy(ies) of its receipt(s), indicating that it has filed the required proof of insurance and paid the required fees.
Motor carriers may not alter a receipt or a copy of a receipt.
(7) The driver of a motor vehicle must present a copy(ies) of a receipt(s) for inspection by any authorized Alabama Public Service Commission personnel on reasonable demand.
(8) All motor carriers described in 770-X-10-.03 -2.02(a) above who are required to select another state participating in the Single State Registration System as their registration state shall comply with the above requirements in their registration state and submit to their registration state the fees for all vehicles which will be operated within the borders of Alabama.
Author: Alabama Public Service Commission
Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 37-3-5, 37-3-7, 37-3-22.