Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:474.1 – In-transit plates
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:474.1
- 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
- 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
Any dealer in motor vehicles, or trailers, or semitrailers, or other vehicles, may operate or move any such vehicle, or cause any such vehicle to be operated, or moved, upon the public roads, highways, and bridges without registering the vehicle and without attaching number plates to the vehicle, provided that the vehicle is being delivered to or from the dealer’s place of business and provided that the dealer operating or moving or authorizing the operation or movement of the vehicle displays in plain sight upon the vehicle a placard which bears the name and address of the dealer and the words “IN TRANSIT”.
Acts 1992, No. 631, §1, eff. July 2, 1992.