The Hamilton County Clerk’s tag and title office soon will receive more than $30,000 worth of new scanners to improve the way the county handles title and registration applications.
“It’s really a modernization of the title and registration system,” County Clerk Bill Knowles said. “It hasn’t been updated in 40 or 50 years.”
Once people apply for a title and registration, the application will be scanned locally. The scanning is now done in Nashville, he said.
County commissioners last week approved purchasing the 40 Fujitsu scanners from Y&S Technologies. The machines will be paid for from the fees customers pay to the clerk’s office.
Mr. Knowles said he asked the commission to approve the purchase ahead of its regular meeting.