Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XXIV. Public Utilities § 281.687.Vehicle license cost recovery fee charged by motor vehicle renting company

(a) “Motor vehicle renting company” means a holder of a certificate as required under KRS 281.630 to operate as a U-Drive-It, which regularly engages in renting or leasing motor vehicles to customers for less than a sixty (60) day term as part of an established business;

(b) “Vehicle license costs” means the costs incurred by a motor vehicle renting company for licensing, titling, registration, property tax, plating, and inspecting rental motor vehicles; and

(c) “Vehicle license cost recovery fee” means a charge on a vehicle rental transaction originating within the Commonwealth that is separately stated on the rental agreement to recover vehicle license costs.

(2) (a) If a motor vehicle renting company includes a vehicle license cost recovery fee as a separately stated charge in a rental transaction, the amount of the fee shall represent the company's good-faith estimate of the motor vehicle rental company's daily charge to recover its actual total annual vehicle license costs.

(b) If the total amount of the vehicle license cost recovery fees collected by a motor vehicle renting company under this section in any calendar year exceeds the company's actual vehicle license costs, the motor vehicle renting company shall: