Sec. 501.032. ASSIGNMENT OF VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER BY DEPARTMENT. (a) On proper application, the department shall assign a vehicle identification number to a travel trailer, a trailer or semitrailer, a frame, or an item of equipment, including a tractor, farm implement, unit of special mobile equipment, or unit of off-road construction equipment:
(1) on which a vehicle identification number was not die-stamped by the manufacturer;
(2) on which a vehicle identification number die-stamped by the manufacturer has been lost, removed, or obliterated; or
(3) for which a vehicle identification number was never assigned.
(b) The applicant shall die-stamp the assigned vehicle identification number at the place designated by the department on the travel trailer, trailer, semitrailer, frame, or equipment.
(c) The manufacturer's vehicle identification number or the vehicle identification number assigned by the department shall be affixed on the carriage or axle part of the travel trailer, trailer, or semitrailer. The department shall use the number as the major identification of the vehicle in the issuance of a title.
(d) Only the department may issue vehicle identification numbers.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1296 (H.B. 2357), Sec. 21, eff. January 1, 2012.
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1135 (H.B. 2741), Sec. 47, eff. September 1, 2013.
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