(1) The State Department of Agriculture shall issue license plates to be attached to all vehicles used in business by any licensed wholesale produce dealer or retail produce peddler. The license plates shall be made in the form and manner prescribed by the department, and shall be issued for the number of vehicles to be used by the applicant in the produce business and for which application has been made and a fee paid as provided in ORS 585.010 to 585.220. Every licensee shall keep the department informed of all motor vehicles used by the licensee in the business of the licensee and of the number of the ownership certificate applying to each motor vehicle and the licensee shall notify the department of all changes in ownership of any such motor vehicle. In case of a decrease in the number of vehicles for which the licensee is entitled to use license plates, all excess plates shall immediately be returned to the department. The returned plates shall be retained by the department until the end of the license period and may be repossessed by the licensee upon proof that the licensee is again entitled to use them.
(2) All license plates and all other indicia of the possession of a license are at all times the property of the State of Oregon. Each licensee is entitled to the possession thereof only for the duration of the license, and the department may take possession of the plates or other indicia on the expiration, suspension or revocation thereof. Any refusal by a person in possession of such plates or other indicia to return the same to the department, upon the termination or suspension of the license under which they were issued, is a violation of ORS 585.010 to 585.220.
(3) No person shall operate any vehicle in the conduct of business as a wholesale produce dealer or as a retail produce peddler, unless the license plates provided for in this section are attached to the rear of the vehicle in plain sight and kept clean and readable.
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