Vehicles: first-line service provider: dealer charges.

Existing law establishes a first-line service provider as an industry partner that receives information from the Department of Motor Vehicles and then transmits it to another industry partner. Existing law authorizes the director of the department to establish, through the adoption of regulations, the maximum amount that a qualified private industry partner may charge its customers in providing services for license plate processing, postage, registration, and titling transactions. This bill would instead prohibit a first-line service provider from charging a dealer more than $22 for providing the specified services unless the director determines that this amount is insufficient, and by regulation increases the maximum amount that a first-line service provider may charge a dealer. The bill would declare that it would take effect immediately as an urgency statute.