200K Arizona drivers getting refunds over public safety fee

PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of drivers volition beryllium getting $32 refund checks from the Arizona Department of Transportation. About 200,000 checks are going retired successful the message this month, worthy astir $6.6 million. The Arizona Republic reports that the refunds impact a arguable nationalist information interest that was portion of conveyance registration costs approved 3 years agone and aboriginal rescinded. Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scottsdale, told the paper that she added the refunds into the authorities fund for radical who paid the interest successful June due to the fact that the section should not person charged it that period aft its repeal.