Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:520 – Dealers temporary demonstration and transportation identification plate
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:520
- 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
- Motor vehicle: means every vehicle, as herein defined, which is self propelled. 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. As used in this Section, the word “dealership” means any legal entity which is licensed to do business as a motor vehicle dealer by the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission, La. Rev. Stat. 32:1251 et seq., or by the Louisiana Used Motor Vehicle and Parts Commission, La. Rev. Stat. 32:771 et seq.
B. Each dealership may print and utilize dealers temporary demonstration and transportation identification plates, hereinafter referred to as identification plates, in lieu of motor vehicle registration plates in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
C. Each identification plate shall be green and shall contain the following information:
(1) The name of the dealership which is using the identification plate.
(2) The telephone number of the dealership which is using the identification plate.
(3) The number on the license issued by the Motor Vehicle Commission or by the Used Motor Vehicle and Parts Commission to the dealership which is using the identification plate.
(4) The date on which the identification plate was placed in service.
D. Subject to the provisions of Subsection B of this Section, the office of motor vehicles shall establish the size, design, and other characteristics of the identification plates.
E. Each identification plate shall be valid for five days from the date on which the identification plate was placed in service.
F. Each dealership which places an identification plate in service on a motor vehicle may use that motor vehicle for any business purpose of the dealership, including but not limited to the demonstration or transportation of that vehicle.
Acts 1995, No. 229, §1, eff. June 14, 1995.