Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:510 – Notice of sale or transfer
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:510
- Commissioner: means the secretary of the Department of Public Safety as provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Dealer: means every person engaged regularly in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging motor vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, trucks, tractors, or other character of commercial or industrial motor vehicles in this state, and having an established place of business in this state, and using a special license plate issued hereunder solely for or in the bona fide transaction of such business and not otherwise, howsoever, or by whomsoever. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Department: means the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, acting directly through its duly authorized officers and agents, or whatever state board, official, or body may hereafter be authorized by law to exercise the functions now devolving upon it under the law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Manufacturer: means every person engaged in the business of designing, manufacturing, constructing or assembling new motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Motor vehicle: means every vehicle, as herein defined, which is self propelled. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Person: means every natural person, individual, firm, copartnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association or other organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Semitrailer: means every single vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers and so designed in conjunction and used with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle and having itself one or more load-carrying axles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Trailer: means every single vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers wholly on its own structure and designed to be drawn by a truck, tractor, or another motor vehicle and having two or more load carrying axles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Vehicle: means every device in, upon, or by which any person, property, or thing is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; provided, that for the purpose of this Chapter, a bicycle or a ridden animal shall not be deemed a vehicle, and provided further that a trailer or semitrailer shall be held and deemed each to be and constitute a separate vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
A. Every manufacturer or dealer, upon transferring a motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer, whether by sale, lease, or otherwise, to any person other than a manufacturer or dealer, shall give monthly, sworn written notice of such transfers to the commissioner, on the official form provided by the commissioner. Every such notice shall contain the date of the transfer, the name and address of the transferor and transferee, and such description of the vehicle as may be called for in the form. Manufacturers or dealers failing to give such notice, or to pay proper registration fees or license taxes, shall be subject to all penalties as provided in this Chapter. However, the provisions of this Subsection shall not apply to any new motor vehicle dealer properly licensed according to the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 32:1251 et seq.
B. Any person, upon transferring a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, whether by sale, lease or otherwise shall give a written notice of such transfer to the commissioner within fifteen days, on a form provided by the commissioner. Every such notice shall contain the date of the transfer, the name and address of the transferor and transferee, and such description of the vehicle as may be called for in the form.
C. The secretary shall, upon request, furnish to the governing authority of any municipality or parish requesting same, information in a computer machine readable media on the sale or transfer of motor vehicles within that municipality or parish. The secretary shall promulgate rules for the distribution and establish the fee schedule for said service, the cost of which shall be borne by the requesting agency.
D. When a new or used motor vehicle dealer who is licensed under the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 32:771 et seq. or of La. Rev. Stat. 32:1251 et seq. acquires the ownership of a used motor vehicle, from a private individual, the dealer shall notify the Department of Public Safety and Corrections of the acquisition within thirty days of the date on which the used motor vehicle was acquired.
Amended by Acts 1968, No. 274, §1; Acts 1975, No. 362, §1; Acts 1978, No. 668, §1; Acts 1980, No. 403, §1, eff. July 18, 1980; Acts 1995, No. 574, §1; Acts 2004, No. 418, §1.