LTO DavNor to collect P-450 for standard plates on renewal

TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte, January 13 (PIA) - - The Land Transportation Office is collecting additional P-450 as payment for the standard plate during the car registration renewal of vehicles having four or more wheels.

Marietta Piccio, supervising transportation and regulation officer of LTO based in this province, emphasized in an interview that during the renewal process, their office will just receive payments for the new plates.

“We will not be distributing new plates during the renewal instead we will just accept their payment for it to be requisitioned to the central office,” Piccio said.

Piccio said that according to the memorandum circular from their central office, the plates will be available 45 days from the receipt of the payment.

She also stressed that included in the kit of the new standard plates is the guidelines on how to properly attach it.

“For January, all vehicles with four or more wheels that have plate numbers ending in one (1) must renew their registration and pay the additional fee for the new plate,” Piccio said.

She said that the registration of any vehicle not renewed during their renewal period shall be considered delinquent and invalid, which will be dealt with accordingly based on the penalties set under Republic Act 4133.

Meanwhile, Piccio also declared that their office surpassed their 2014 target collection of P-50 million.

“Although the figures are still to be consolidated, I can now say that we surpassed our target 2014,” she highlighted.

She said that averagely, their collection comprised 60% from the registration, 30% from the licenses and 10% from the apprehensions.

“For December alone, we collected almost P-4 million, which were mostly penalties,” she added. (PIA 11, Michael Uy)