California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 1 - Issuance of Licenses and Certificates to Manufacturers, Transporters, and Dealers

  • Section 11700.
    No person shall act as a dealer, remanufacturer, manufacturer, or transporter, or as a manufacturer branch, remanufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch, without having first...
  • Section 11700.1.
    A dealer who does not have an established place of business in this state but who is currently authorized to do business as, and who...
  • Section 11700.2.
    A dealer who obtains an autobroker’s endorsement to his or her dealer’s license is subject to all of the licensing, advertising, and other statutory and...
  • Section 11700.3.
    No person may aid and abet a person in the performance of any act in violation of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 407, Sec....
  • Section 11701.
    Every manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, transporter, or dealer of vehicles of a type subject to registration, or snowmobiles, motorcycles, all-terrain...
  • Section 11702.
    The department may issue, or for reasonable cause shown, refuse to issue a license to any applicant applying for a manufacturer's, manufacturer’s branch, remanufacturer's, remanufacturer’s...
  • Section 11703.
    The department may refuse to issue a license to a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, transporter, or dealer, if it determines...
  • Section 11703.1.
    Any of the causes specified in this chapter as a cause to suspend or revoke the license issued to a dealer, manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer,...
  • Section 11703.2.
    The department may refuse to issue a license to a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, transporter, or dealer, when the department...
  • Section 11703.3.
    A person whose license has been revoked or whose application for a license has been denied may reapply for a license after a period of...
  • Section 11703.4.
    The department may refuse to issue a license to a dealer when it determines that an applicant for a dealer’s license has failed to effectively...
  • Section 11704.
    (a) Every applicant who applies for a license pursuant to Section 11701 shall submit an application to the department on the forms prescribed by the department....
  • Section 11704.5.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), every person who applies for a dealer’s license pursuant to Section 11701 for the purpose of transacting sales of...
  • Section 11704.7.
    Every person who applies to the department to take or retake the examination required under Section 11704.5 shall pay to the department a fee of...
  • Section 11705.
    (a) The department, after notice and hearing, may suspend or revoke the license issued to a dealer, transporter, manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, or...
  • Section 11705.4.
    (a) The department, after notice and hearing, may suspend or revoke the license issued to a dealer, transporter, manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch upon...
  • Section 11706.
    The department may, pending a hearing, temporarily suspend the license and special plates issued to a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch,...
  • Section 11707.
    (a) After the filing of an accusation under this article, the director may enter into a stipulated compromise settlement agreement with the consent of the licensee...
  • Section 11708.
    (a) Upon refusal of the department to issue a license and special plates to a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, transporter, or...
  • Section 11709.
    (a) A dealer’s established place of business, and other sites or locations as may be operated and maintained by the dealer in conjunction with his or...
  • Section 11709.1.
    Every dealer who displays or offers one or more used vehicles for sale at retail shall post a notice not less than 8 inches high...
  • Section 11709.2.
    Every dealer shall conspicuously display a notice, not less than eight inches high and 10 inches wide, in each sales office and sales cubicle of...
  • Section 11709.3.
    (a) Every dealer shall clearly and conspicuously display in its showroom at its established place of business, in a place that is easily accessible to prospective...
  • Section 11709.4.
    (a) When a dealer purchases or obtains a vehicle in trade in a retail sale or lease transaction and the vehicle is subject to a prior...
  • Section 11710.
    (a) Before any dealer’s or remanufacturer’s license is issued or renewed by the department to any applicant therefor, the applicant shall procure and file with the...
  • Section 11710.1.
    Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 11710, the bond amount of a dealer who sells vehicles on a wholesale basis only, and who sells fewer than...
  • Section 11710.2.
    If a deposit is given instead of the bond required by Section 11710 both of the following apply:(a) (1) The director may order the deposit returned at...
  • Section 11711.
    (a) If any person (1) shall suffer any loss or damage by reason of any fraud practiced on him or fraudulent representation made to him by a...
  • Section 11711.3.
    A person acting as a dealer, who was not licensed as a dealer as required by this article, or a person acting as a lessor-retailer,...
  • Section 11712.
    (a) The department shall not issue a dealer’s license to any applicant therefor who has not an established place of business as defined in this code....
  • Section 11712.5.
    It is unlawful and a violation of this code for a dealer issued a license pursuant to this article to sell, offer for sale, or...
  • Section 11713.
    A holder of a license issued under this article shall not do any of the following:(a) Make or disseminate, or cause to be made or disseminated,...
  • Section 11713.1.
    It is a violation of this code for the holder of a dealer’s license issued under this article to do any of the following:(a) Advertise a...
  • Section 11713.2.
    It shall be unlawful and a violation of this code for any manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch licensed under this code to coerce...
  • Section 11713.3.
    It is unlawful and a violation of this code for a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch licensed pursuant to this code to do,...
  • Section 11713.4.
    If a purchaser of a vehicle pays to the dealer an amount for the licensing or transfer of title of the vehicle, which amount is...
  • Section 11713.5.
    (a) It is unlawful and a violation of this code for the holder of any license issued under this article to display for sale, offer for...
  • Section 11713.6.
    (a) It is unlawful and a violation of this code for the holder of any dealer’s license issued under this article to fail to disclose in...
  • Section 11713.7.
    Disclosure to a buyer that a vehicle has been remanufactured is required. Disclosure shall be accomplished by all of the following:(a) Oral notification to the buyer.(b) The...
  • Section 11713.8.
    It is unlawful and a violation of this code for a remanufacturer licensed under this code to fail to do any of the following:(a) Report to...
  • Section 11713.9.
    (a) It is unlawful and a violation of this code for the holder of a dealer’s license to knowingly display for sale or offer for sale...
  • Section 11713.10.a.
    It is unlawful and a violation of this code to sell a low-speed vehicle, as defined in Section 385.5, without disclosing to the buyer the...
  • Section 11713.11.
    No holder of a dealer’s license shall do any of the following when conducting an auction of vehicles to the public:(a) Advertise that a vehicle will...
  • Section 11713.12.
    (a) The decal required by subdivision (c) of Section 1793.23 of the Civil Code to be affixed by a manufacturer to a motor vehicle, shall be...
  • Section 11713.13.
    It is unlawful and a violation of this code for any manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch licensed under this code to do, directly...
  • Section 11713.14.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who purchases a vehicle that is sold through a dealer at an auction of vehicles open to...
  • Section 11713.15.
    (a) (1) Prior to being issued a temporary branch license for selling new recreational vehicles, as defined in Section 18010 of the Health and Safety Code, at...
  • Section 11713.16.
    It is a violation of this code for the holder of any dealer’s license issued under this article to do any of the following:(a) Advertise any...
  • Section 11713.17.
    (a) Following the retail sale or lease of a motor vehicle for which the department issues two license plates, a dealer may not deliver the motor...
  • Section 11713.18.
    (a) It is a violation of this code for the holder of any dealer’s license issued under this article to advertise for sale or sell a...
  • Section 11713.19.
    (a) It is unlawful and a violation of this code for the holder of any dealer’s license issued under this article to do any of the...
  • Section 11713.20.a.
    (a) A dealer that obtains a consumer credit score, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 1785.15.1 of the Civil Code, from a consumer credit reporting...
  • Section 11713.21.
    (a) (1) A dealer shall not sell a used vehicle, as defined in Section 665 and subject to registration under this code, at retail to an individual...
  • Section 11713.22.
    (a) Upon mutual agreement of the parties to enter into a recreational vehicle franchise, it is unlawful and a violation of this code for a manufacturer,...
  • Section 11713.23.
    (a) A recreational vehicle manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch licensed under this code shall not sell a new recreational vehicle in this state to...
  • Section 11713.25.
    (a) A computer vendor shall not do any of the following:(1) Access, modify, or extract information from a confidential dealer computer record or personally identifiable consumer data...
  • Section 11713.26.
    (a) A dealer shall not display or offer for sale at retail a used vehicle, as defined in Section 665 and subject to registration under this...
  • Section 11714.
    (a) The department, upon granting a license, shall issue to the applicant a license containing the applicant’s name and address and the general distinguishing number assigned...
  • Section 11714.a.
    (a) The department, upon granting a license, shall issue to the applicant a license containing the applicant’s name and address and the general distinguishing number assigned...
  • Section 11715.
    (a) A manufacturer, remanufacturer, distributor, or dealer owning or lawfully possessing any vehicle of a type otherwise required to be registered under this code may operate...
  • Section 11716.
    A manufacturer, remanufacturer, transporter, distributor, or dealer, in the course of business, may operate or move any vehicle of a type otherwise required to be...
  • Section 11717.
    (a) Every occupational license and special plate issued under this article shall be valid for a period of one year from midnight of the last day...
  • Section 11718.
    Except where the provisions of this code require the refusal to issue a license, the department may issue a probationary license subject to conditions to...
  • Section 11719.
    Pending the satisfaction of the department that the applicant has met the requirements under this article, it may issue a temporary permit to any person...
  • Section 11720.
    The department may issue a certificate of convenience to the executor, executrix, administrator or administratrix of the estate of a deceased holder of validly outstanding...
  • Section 11721.
    The special plates and licenses provided for in this article shall be automatically canceled upon the happening of any of the following:(a) The abandonment of the...
  • Section 11722.
    Claims, against the surety upon a dealer’s bond, of a financing agency that has loaned money to a licensee or assignee thereof shall be allowed...
  • Section 11723.
    The board may require that fees shall be paid to the department for the issuance or renewal of a license to do business as a...
  • Section 11724.
    A dealer, or the agent of a dealer, who has received a notice pursuant to Section 7507.6 of the Business and Professions Code, shall not...
  • Section 11725.
    (a) No person shall transport or drive any motor vehicle from this state outside of the United States with the intent to register or sell such...
  • Section 11726.
    Any licensee suffering pecuniary loss because of any willful failure by any other licensee to comply with any provision of Article 1 (commencing with Section...
  • Section 11727.
    The revocation or suspension of a license of a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, or representative may be limited to one or more municipalities...
  • Section 11728.
    As part of a compromise settlement agreement entered into pursuant to Section 11707 or 11808.5, the department may assess a monetary penalty of not more...
  • Section 11729.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any dealer engaging in a consignment with an owner not licensed as a dealer, manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or...
  • Section 11730.
    The consignment agreement required by Section 11729 shall contain all the following terms, phrases, conditions, and disclosures:(a) The date the agreement is executed. (b) All of the...
  • Section 11735.
    (a) No dealer shall engage in brokering a retail sales transaction without first paying the fee required by subdivision (d) of Section 9262 and obtaining from...
  • Section 11736.
    It is unlawful for any dealer licensed under this article to do any of the following when brokering a retail sale:(a) Fail to execute a written...
  • Section 11737.
    (a) A dealer who brokers a motor vehicle sale shall deposit directly into a trust account any purchase money, including purchase deposits, it receives from a...
  • Section 11738.
    The brokering agreement required by Section 11736 shall be printed in no smaller than 10-point type and shall contain not less than the following terms,...
  • Section 11739.
    For purposes of title registration, warranties, rebates, and incentives, in a brokered retail new motor vehicle sale, the selling, franchised new car dealer, and not...
  • Section 11740.
    The remedies and penalties provided in this code for a violation of this article are cumulative to the remedies and penalties provided by other laws.(Added...

Last modified: October 22, 2018