WEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

ENROLLED

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 4530

By Delegate Westfall

[Passed March 7, 2020; in effect ninety days from passage.]

AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §17A-6D-17, relating to fees that may be charged by daily passenger rental car companies pursuant to the master rental agreement; defining a term; authorizing daily passenger rental car companies to charge administrative fees under a certain amount related to certain costs incurred by the rental customer and paid by the daily passenger car rental company; and requiring that the rental customer affirmatively agree to the administrative fees in the master rental agreement.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 6D. dAILY PASSENGER RENTAL CAR BUSINESS.

§17A-6D-17. Authorized administrative fees.

(a) As used in this section, “administrative fees” means reasonable costs expressly provided for in the master rental agreement pertaining to parking tickets, tolls, citations for other non-moving violations, and other costs incurred by the rental customer and not timely paid by the rental customer and paid by the daily passenger car rental company. Administrative fees may not exceed $25 per rental agreement or ten percent of the debt owed, whichever is less.

(b) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, including, but not limited to §46A-2-128(d) of this code, a daily passenger rental car company may collect or charge administrative fees incidental to, or arising from, the rental transaction when the administrative fees are expressly provided for in the master rental agreement and affirmatively acknowledged by the rental customer.

The Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills hereby certifies that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.

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        Chairman, House Committee

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                             Chairman, Senate Committee

Originating in the House.

In effect ninety days from passage.

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                  Clerk of the House of Delegates

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                                                   Clerk of the Senate

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                                                   Speaker of the House of Delegates

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                                                                                     President of the Senate

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                                                                                                Governor