§ 8901 - Purpose - Vermont Statutes

§ 8901. Purpose

This is an act to impose a purchase and use tax on motor vehicles in addition to any other tax or registration fees. The purpose of this chapter is to thereby improve and maintain the state and interstate highway systems, to pay the principal and interest on bonds issued for the improvement and maintenance of those systems and to pay the cost of administering this chapter. The administration of this chapter is vested in the commissioner of motor vehicles and his authorized representatives. The commissioner may prescribe and publish regulations to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter, which regulations, when reasonably designed to carry out the intent of this chapter, shall have the same force as if enacted herein. (Added 1959, No. 327 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 1, 1960.)