Squash This Bill HB 928

While this pettition was generated to further OHV access on MD's Eastern Shore, it is important to warn you of a coming threat. That is HB 928.


We are working with @American Motorcyclist Association and B-360 Baltimore but need your help squashing HB 928 https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/.../Legislation/Details/HB0928
at committee by 1PM 3/1/23! HB 928 was intended to combat illegal use of off-highway vehicles on roads, but went awry! We were only notified about this a few hours ago (2pm on 2/27) and are working with our legislative partners to stop this but need your help as we are close to missing the deadline to submit testimony!!! 3PM 2/28/23
As currently written, your county, and municipality, can make you register your OHV with no set fee limit, with the penalty of your OHV being IMPOUNDED. You read that correctly. On top of your state titling fee’s, the annual $10 DNR registration for use of public lands, your county and even your township can add annual fee’s without limit to your OHV. Should you be late on payment or park your OHV in the garage for the season, the police will come and impound your equipment. There is no fine structure. You are either legally registered, or at risk of impoundment.
To Submit Testimony!
Please create an MYGMA account in the top right corner of the page Legislation - HB0928 (maryland.gov) and then follow the video for instruction on how to register to submit testimony. https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/.../Tutorials/WitnessSignUp.mp4
PLEASE EMAIL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Please also email members of the Environment and Transportation Committee
Chair Kumar Barve kumar.barve@house.state.md.us
Vice Chair Dana Stein dana.stein@house.state.md.us
Ragina Boyce Lead Bill Sponsor regina.boyce@house.state.md.us
Bill Wivell Bill Co-Sponsor william.wivell@house.state.md.us
Full list of committee members can be found here https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Committees/Details...

The AMA has also helped us with this sample template to email your concerns 
https://www.votervoice.net/Motorcyclist/campaigns/101778/respond


Sample Email/Testimony as follows
“
Subject : Opposition to HB928!!!,
HB928’s original intent was to curb the illegal use of Off-Highway Vehicles (OHV) on public roads. However, this Bill does not address that problem. HB928 requires OHV owners to register their OHV with county and even municipal governments with the penalty of impoundment for failing to do so. Even if you keep your OHV purely on your own properly, or locked away in a garage for a year, failure to comply with this law will result in vehicle confiscation. This law would be the first of its kind as no other vehicle type is required to be registered with a county. There is no county registration for boats, kayaks, cars, trucks, or jet ski’s with local governments. There is only registration on a State Level.
If implemented in its current form, this bill would create a convoluted and hard to navigate fee system where OHV owners would be required to pay a state titling fee, an annual $10 State DNR registration fee for use of public lands, then add on a county and or even a township annual fee. These local government fee’s have no legislative constraints. Causing user’s to spend money on exorbitant fee’s to continue to possess property they already legally own.
Not only do these fee’s have no limit, they also do nothing to solve the problem. The collected fee’s do not go towards providing recreational opportunities to fund legal use of these vehicles.
As such, I do not support this overreach and abuse of my targeted user group to support the general fund.
Sincerely,
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Thank you for your time!