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Penalties to be charged for late payment of vehicle registration fees

You could soon pay a late fee if you’re tardy in renewing your vehicle registration. George Olsen has more.

Effective July 1 vehicle owners need to pay for their annual vehicle registration renewal before their current registration expires or face a late fee. The fees are graduated, rising depending on how late a vehicle owner renews their registration. A late fee of $15 will be charged to vehicle owners who renew registrations expired for less than a month. The fee rises to $20 for renewals 1-2 months late, then to $25 for renewals sent in more than two months late. Citizens can operate vehicles up to 15 days after their registration has expired without being ticketed. The new late fees were part of legislation passed by the General Assembly last September. I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.