{"id":29954,"date":"2021-04-12T10:14:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T16:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=29954"},"modified":"2021-04-12T10:14:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T16:14:53","slug":"new-timeline-requirements-for-abandoned-vehicles-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=29954","title":{"rendered":"New timeline requirements for abandoned vehicles advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska law enforcement would be required to make timely abandoned vehicle reports under a bill advanced from general file April 12.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20142\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20142\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20142\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHughes_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senhughes_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dan Hughes&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dan Hughes&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHughes_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20142\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHughes_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Dan Hughes\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHughes_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHughes_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dan Hughes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Currently, when an abandoned vehicle is towed, the towing company must notify any lienholder on the title, as well as the owner, within 15 business days. LB616, sponsored by Venango Sen. Dan Hughes, would require the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction also to follow the notification requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes said that it is not uncommon for a tower to have a vehicle on their lot for an extended period of time while waiting for law enforcement to give notice to the last owner of the vehicle or lienholder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the meantime, the vehicle is taking up space in the tower\u2019s lot and the tower is not being financially compensated or recouping any of the towing charges,\u201d Hughes said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also would increase the value of an abandoned vehicle from $250 to $500.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 45-0 adoption of a technical Transportation and Telecommunications Committee amendment, senators voted 46-0 to advance LB616 to select file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska law enforcement would be required to make timely abandoned vehicle reports under a bill advanced from general file April 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-29954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transportation-and-telecommunications","tag-sen-dan-hughes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LB616HughesAlbrechtLowe4-12-21a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29955,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29954\/revisions\/29955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}