licensed vehicle dealers
House Bill 2056 makes numerous changes to statutes affecting motor vehicle dealers at the request of the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division (MVD).
· Provides that a licensed dealer must apply for an off-premises exhibition, display and sale or special event to MVD at least ten business days before the date of the event.
· Specifies that an off-premises display and sale permit is valid for seven calendar days and that an off-premises exhibition permit is valid for ten calendar days.
· Prohibits MVD from issuing more than one off-premises display and sales or exhibition permit for the same location in a calendar quarter.
· Specifies that authorized representatives of a law enforcement agency or the director may examine the records of a licensee.
· Clarifies that a dealer licenses, recycler licenses, and transporter licenses are not transferable, salable or eligible for assignment to another person.
· Removes archaic language that requires a dealer who sells mobile medical clinics to display a dealer’s license in an established place of business.
· Requires “brokers” to erect a sign at their principal place of business.
· Expands the department’s authority when issuing a cease and desist order to require the licensee from further engaging in a prohibited activity or to cease and desist from the activity and from operating as a dealer.
· Allows a licensed dealer who receives a cease and desist order to request a hearing.
· Removes the requirement that the Director schedule a hearing for an unlicensed dealer and allows a person who receives a cease and desist order for acting as an unlicensed dealer to submit a written request for a hearing to the director.
· Strikes the requirement that the Director issue a written notice for a hearing to a person alleged to be operating as an unlicensed dealer and replaces it with a requirement that the person must request a hearing.
· Allows the Director to suspend temporary registration plates, or dealer or manufacturer plates, prior to conducting a hearing and permits the dealer or manufacturer to request a hearing within thirty days after receiving notice of the suspension.
· Requires title service companies to display their license in the established place of business for which the license was obtained and prohibits the sale, reassignment or transfer of the license.
· Specifies that authorized representatives of a law enforcement agency may examine the records of a title service company.
· Prescribes that an owner or registrant of a fleet must have at least one hundred vehicles in the fleet to qualify for an exemption from the criminal record check prior to authorization by the department as a third party.
· Specifies that authorized representatives of a law enforcement agency or the director may examine the records of a third party
· Allows a person to apply for an aircraft dealer’s license on forms authorized by the director.
· Makes technical and conforming changes.
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44th Legislature
Second Regular Session 2 January
19, 2001
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