Texas Transportation Code Title 7, Chapter 503 - Dealer's And Manufacturer's Vehicle License Plates
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 503.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Board" has the meaning assigned by Chapter 2301, Occupations Code. (2) "Commission" means the board of the Texas Department of Motor...
- Texas Section 503.002 - Rules
The board may adopt rules for the administration of this chapter. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Amended by...
- Texas Section 503.003 - Display Or Sale Of Nonmotorized Vehicle Or Trailer
This chapter does not prohibit the display or sale of a nonmotorized vehicle or trailer at a regularly scheduled vehicle or boat show with multiple...
- Texas Section 503.004 - Buying, Selling, Exchanging, Or Manufacturing Vehicles
This chapter does not prohibit a person from entering into the business of buying, selling, or exchanging new or used vehicles at wholesale or retail...
- Texas Section 503.005 - Notice Of Sale Or Transfer
(a) A manufacturer or dealer shall immediately notify the department if the manufacturer or dealer transfers, including by sale or lease, a motor vehicle, trailer,...
- Texas Section 503.006 - Notice Of Change Of Address
A dealer or manufacturer who has been issued dealer's, converter's, or manufacturer's license plates shall notify the department of a change to the dealer's, converter's,...
- Texas Section 503.007 - Fees For General Distinguishing Number
(a) The fee for an original general distinguishing number is $500 for the first year and $200 for each subsequent year for which the number...
- Texas Section 503.008 - Fees For License Plates
(a) The fee for a metal dealer's license plate is $20 a year. (b) The fee for a manufacturer's license plate is $40 a year....
- Texas Section 503.009 - Procedure For Certain Contested Cases
(a) The board may conduct hearings in contested cases brought under this chapter as provided by this chapter and Chapter 2301, Occupations Code. Without reference...
- Texas Section 503.010 - Term Of General Distinguishing Number, License, Or License Plate
Each general distinguishing number, license, or license plate issued under this chapter is valid for the period prescribed by the commission. Added by Acts 2007,...
- Texas Section 503.011 - Prorating Fees
If the board prescribes the term of a general distinguishing number, license, or license plate under this chapter for a period other than one year,...
SUBCHAPTER B GENERAL DISTINGUISHING NUMBER
- Texas Section 503.012 - Collected Money
Section 403.095, Government Code, does not apply to money received by the department and deposited to the credit of the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles...
- Texas Section 503.021 - Dealer General Distinguishing Number
A person may not engage in business as a dealer, directly or indirectly, including by consignment, without a dealer general distinguishing number in one of...
- Texas Section 503.022 - Wholesale Motor Vehicle Auction General Distinguishing Number
A person may not engage in the business of conducting a wholesale motor vehicle auction without a wholesale motor vehicle auction general distinguishing number for...
- Texas Section 503.023 - Drive-a-way Operator License
A person may not engage in business as a drive-a-way operator without a drive-a-way in-transit license. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff....
- Texas Section 503.024 - Exclusions For Dealer
(a) A person is not required to obtain a dealer general distinguishing number if the person: (1) sells or offers to sell during a calendar...
- Texas Section 503.025 - Wholesale Motor Vehicle Auction Exception
A person exempt under Section 503.024(d) is not required to obtain a wholesale motor vehicle auction general distinguishing number. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165,...
- Texas Section 503.026 - Requirement For Each Type Of Dealer Vehicle
A person must obtain a dealer general distinguishing number for each type of vehicle the person intends to sell. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165,...
- Texas Section 503.027 - Requirements Relating To Dealer Location
(a) If a dealer consigns for sale more than five vehicles in a calendar year from a location other than the location for which the...
- Texas Section 503.028 - Requirements Relating To Wholesale Motor Vehicle Auction Location
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the department may not issue more than one general distinguishing number for a location for which the wholesale...
- Texas Section 503.029 - Application For Dealer General Distinguishing Number
(a) An applicant for an original or renewal dealer general distinguishing number must submit to the department a written application on a form that: (1)...
- Texas Section 503.0295 - Independent Mobility Motor Vehicle Dealers
A person who seeks to act as an independent mobility motor vehicle dealer shall provide with each application for a general distinguishing number and each...
- Texas Section 503.030 - Application For Wholesale Motor Vehicle Auction General Distinguishing Number
(a) An applicant for an original or renewal wholesale motor vehicle auction general distinguishing number must submit to the department an application that contains: (1)...
- Texas Section 503.031 - Application For Drive-a-way In-transit License
(a) An applicant for a drive-a-way in-transit license must submit to the commission an application containing the information required by the commission. (b) The license...
- Texas Section 503.032 - Established And Permanent Place Of Business
(a) An applicant for a dealer general distinguishing number or wholesale motor vehicle auction general distinguishing number must demonstrate that the location for which the...
- Texas Section 503.033 - Security Requirement
(a) The department may not issue or renew a motor vehicle dealer general distinguishing number or a wholesale motor vehicle auction general distinguishing number unless...
- Texas Section 503.034 - Issuance And Renewal Or Denial Of Dealer Or Wholesale Motor Vehicle Auction General Distinguishing Number
(a) The department shall deny an application for the issuance or renewal of a dealer general distinguishing number or a wholesale motor vehicle auction general...
- Texas Section 503.035 - Issuance And Renewal Of Drive-a-way In-transit License
The department shall issue to an applicant on the filing of the application and the payment of the fee a drive-a-way in-transit license and in-transit...
- Texas Section 503.036 - Reassignment Of Evidence Of Ownership; Dealer Categories
(a) The holder of a franchised motor vehicle dealer's general distinguishing number may buy, sell, or exchange new or used motor vehicles and reassign a...
- Texas Section 503.037 - Rights Of Wholesale Motor Vehicle Auction
(a) A person who holds a wholesale motor vehicle auction general distinguishing number may accept on consignment one or more motor vehicles to auction. The...
- Texas Section 503.038 - Cancellation Of General Distinguishing Number
(a) The department may cancel a dealer's general distinguishing number if the dealer: (1) falsifies or forges a title document, including an affidavit making application...
- Texas Section 503.039 - Public Motor Vehicle Auctions
(a) A motor vehicle may not be the subject of a subsequent sale at a public auction by a holder of a dealer's general distinguishing...
SUBCHAPTER C LICENSE PLATES AND TAGS
- Texas Section 503.040 - Sales Of Certain Used Motor Vehicles Constitute Private Disposition
(a) This section applies only to the sale of a used motor vehicle that constitutes collateral by a secured party acting under Chapter 9, Business...
- Texas Section 503.061 - Dealer's License Plates
(a) Instead of registering under Chapter 502 a vehicle that the dealer owns, operates, or permits to be operated on a public street or highway,...
- Texas Section 503.0615 - Personalized Prestige Dealer's License Plates
(a) The department shall establish and issue personalized prestige dealer's license plates. The department may not issue identically lettered or numbered dealer's plates to more...
- Texas Section 503.0618 - Converter's License Plates
(a) In this section, "converter" means a person who holds a converter's license issued under Chapter 2301, Occupations Code. (b) Instead of registering under Chapter...
- Texas Section 503.062 - Dealer's Temporary Tags
(a) A dealer may issue a temporary tag for use on an unregistered vehicle by the dealer or the dealer's employees only to: (1) demonstrate...
- Texas Section 503.0625 - Converter's Temporary Tags
(a) In this section, "converter" means a person who holds a converter's license issued under Chapter 2301, Occupations Code. (b) A converter may issue a...
- Texas Section 503.0626 - Dealer's And Converter's Temporary Tag Database
(a) The department shall develop and maintain a secure, real-time database of information on vehicles to which dealers and converters have affixed temporary tags. The...
- Texas Section 503.063 - Buyer's Temporary Tags
(a) Except as provided by this section, a dealer shall issue to a person who buys a vehicle one temporary buyer's tag for the vehicle....
- Texas Section 503.0631 - Buyer's Temporary Tag Database
(a) The department shall develop and maintain a secure, real-time database of information on persons to whom temporary buyer's tags are issued that may be...
- Texas Section 503.064 - Manufacturer's License Plates
(a) Instead of registering a new vehicle that a manufacturer intends to test on a public street or highway or to loan to a consumer...
- Texas Section 503.065 - Buyer's Out-of-state License Plates
(a) The department may issue or cause to be issued to a person a temporary license plate authorizing the person to operate a new unregistered...
- Texas Section 503.066 - Application For Dealer's Or Manufacturer's License Plates
(a) An applicant for one or more original or renewal dealer's or manufacturer's license plates must submit to the department a written application on a...
- Texas Section 503.067 - Unauthorized Reproduction, Purchase, Use, Or Sale Of Temporary Tags
(a) A person may not produce or reproduce a temporary tag or an item represented to be a temporary tag for the purpose of distributing...
- Texas Section 503.068 - Limitation On Use Of Dealer's License Plates And Tags
(a) A dealer or an employee of a dealer may not use a dealer's temporary tag as authorization to operate a vehicle for the dealer's...
- Texas Section 503.069 - Display Of License Plates And Tags
(a) A license plate, other than an in-transit license plate, or a temporary tag issued under this chapter shall be displayed in accordance with commission...
- Texas Section 503.070 - Removal Of Out-of-state License Plates
(a) A dealer who purchases a vehicle that displays an out-of-state license plate must remove the plate within a reasonable time. (b) A dealer who...
SUBCHAPTER D ENFORCEMENT
- Texas Section 503.071 - Notice Of Driving Or Towing From Out Of State
(a) A motor vehicle that is manufactured outside this state and is driven or towed from the place of manufacture to this state for sale...
- Texas Section 503.091 - Enforcement Agreement
The department may agree with an authorized official of another jurisdiction to regulate activities and exchange information relating to the wholesale operations of nonresident vehicle...
- Texas Section 503.092 - Action To Enforce Chapter
(a) The attorney general or a district, county, or city attorney may enforce this chapter and bring an enforcement action in the county in which...
- Texas Section 503.093 - Action To Enforce Subchapter
(a) The department or any interested person may bring an action, including an action for an injunction, to: (1) enforce a provision of Subchapter B;...
- Texas Section 503.094 - Criminal Penalty
(a) A person commits an offense if the person violates this chapter. (b) Except as otherwise provided by this section, an offense under this section...
- Texas Section 503.095 - Civil Penalty
(a) In addition to any other penalty prescribed by this chapter, a person who violates this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter is...
- Texas Section 503.096 - Towing Of Vehicles
(a) If a person is engaged in business as a dealer in violation of Section 503.021, a peace officer may cause a vehicle that is...
Last modified: September 28, 2016