House of Representatives

HB 2056

licensed vehicle dealers

Sponsors: Representatives Cooley, Carruthers, et al

dpa	Committee on Transportation
DP	Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance
DP	Caucus and COW
X	As Transmitted to the Governor

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).

Provisions

· 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 3 April 24, 2001

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