Title 28, Transportation

A. On imposing a civil penalty for a violation of this article, the court may, if the violation is the first violation within a thirty-six month period, and shall, if the violation is a second or subsequent violation within a thirty-six month period, order the surrender of the pe…

A. A person applying for initial registration or renewal of registration of a motor vehicle required to be registered pursuant to chapter 7 of this title consents to comply with the financial responsibility verifications conducted by the department pursuant to this article or sub…

A. To ensure compliance with this article, the department may verify the financial responsibility of the owner of a motor vehicle involved in an accident in this state. If an accident involves an unregistered vehicle, the department may conduct a financial responsibility verifica…

A. If the owner's response to a mailing pursuant to section 28-4143 indicates that the motor vehicle does not meet the financial responsibility requirement of section 28-4135 or section 28-4033, subsection A, paragraph 2, subdivision (c), the department shall send a suspension no…

A. A person whose driver license, registration and license plate have been suspended pursuant to section 28-4143 or 28-4144 may apply to the department for a restricted license and registration. The license and registration are restricted to travel during the course of employment…

Any insurer, insurer's employees or agents or other person is not civilly liable for reports made to the department under section 28-4143 or 28-4144 if the reports are made in good faith based on the most recent information available to the insurer or other appropriate party.

A. The department shall send written notice to the owner or lessee of a motor vehicle registered pursuant to chapter 7 of this title of any suspension or any financial responsibility verification. The department shall send the notice electronically or digitally, by mail to the ad…

A. Effective from and after January 1, 1998 and through July 31, 1998, each insurer who cancels or becomes aware of the cancellation or nonrenewal of or failure to renew or issuance of a motor vehicle liability insurance policy issued on a vehicle in this state shall provide to t…

A. If the department determines from information provided by an insurer or department records that a motor vehicle liability policy has been cancelled or has not been renewed as provided in section 28-4148 and pursuant to a schedule prescribed by the director, the department shal…

The suspension of a motor vehicle registration pursuant to this article does not establish grounds for the rescission or invalidity of a contract or financing agreement entered into for the purchase of a motor vehicle in this state.

A. A person shall pay a fee of not more than fifty dollars for the reinstatement of a motor vehicle registration and license plate as prescribed by the department for the purposes prescribed in this article. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, this fee does not ap…

A. A vehicle owner or lessee who does not operate a vehicle on a highway of this state is not required to meet the requirements of section 28-4135 during the period in which the vehicle is not in use if the requirements of subsections B through F of this section are met. B. Withi…

A. A person who makes a false certification or affirms falsely to any matter or thing required by section 28-4152 to be certified or affirmed is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor. B. If the department has reasonable grounds to believe the registered owner of a motor vehicle registe…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Area of responsibility" means the area surrounding an individual dealer that the factory designates as that dealer's individual primary geographic territory for the purpose of marketing, promoting, selling and leasing ne…

A. The following fees are required: 1. For filing each application for a dealer's, manufacturer's, importer's, distributor's, factory branch's, distributor branch's, automotive recycler's or wholesale motor vehicle dealer's license, fifteen dollars. 2. For filing each application…

The director shall supervise and regulate all persons required by this chapter to be licensed. In the supervision and regulation required by this section, the director may: 1. Investigate as the director deems necessary and for that purpose the director may require the aid and as…

Monies collected by the director for the following shall be deposited in the state highway fund established by section 28-6991: 1. Civil penalties and vehicle registration reinstatements pursuant to this chapter. 2. Each filing or continuation of a dealer's, manufacturer's, distr…

A. A court of this state may exercise jurisdiction over a manufacturer, corporation, importer or distributor that has been granted a license under this chapter with respect to any conduct of the manufacturer, corporation, importer or distributor in this state. In addition to any …

A dealer who suffers a pecuniary loss or who is otherwise adversely affected because of a violation of this chapter by a manufacturer or distributor has a cause of action against the manufacturer or distributor for damages and may recover those damages in any court of competent j…

A. A manufacturer, distributor, factory branch, distributor branch, motor vehicle dealer or automotive recycler shall not engage in business except in accordance with the requirements of law. B. This chapter does not apply to: 1. A public officer engaged in the discharge of the o…

A. The director shall grant an exemption from the new or used house trailer dealer licensing requirements of this chapter if the person claiming the exemption furnishes satisfactory proof to the director of licensure as a dealer under title 41, chapter 37, article 4. B. The cash …

A. A new motor vehicle shall not be sold in this state unless either the manufacturer on direct dealerships of domestic vehicles, the importer of foreign manufactured vehicles on direct dealerships or the distributor on indirect dealerships of either domestic or foreign vehicles …

A. Except as provided in sections 28-4335, 28-4401 and 28-4402, a person shall not engage in any business regulated by this chapter except from an established place of business and unless the person has obtained from the director a license authorizing the person to engage in the …

A. A wholesale motor vehicle dealer or a broker: 1. Is required to be licensed pursuant to this chapter and pay fees pursuant to section 28-4302. 2. Is required to be a legal resident of this state. 3. Is not required to operate from an established place of business. 4. Shall mai…

A. A branch licensee shall obtain a separate branch license for each place of business at which a licensee transacts business other than the original or principal place of business. B. A motor vehicle dealer licensee shall obtain a separate permit for and display the separate per…

A. A person shall apply for a license to the director in writing on forms prescribed by the director. The person shall include with the application all documents and bonds required and the annual license fees prescribed by section 28-4302. B. The application shall be verified and…

Applications shall be accompanied by: 1. The filing fees prescribed in section 28-4302, and each licensee shall pay the annual license fee prescribed in section 28-4302. 2. A bond that: (a) Is in a form to be approved by the director. (b) Is in an amount prescribed by the directo…

A. At the time a franchisee applies for a license, the franchisee shall file with the director a certified copy of the franchisee's written agreement with the manufacturer and a certificate of appointment as dealer or distributor. B. The certificate of appointment shall be signed…

A. On the filing of the application for a license, the director shall: 1. Investigate the matters set forth in the license application. 2. Inspect, physically or through an alternate method established by the director, the place from which the applicant proposes to transact busin…

A. Within twenty days after completion of the criminal records check, the director shall approve or deny the application for the issuance of a license. If the application is denied, the director shall advise the applicant in writing of the denial and the grounds for the denial. B…

A. Within thirty days after receipt of the notice of denial, the applicant may petition the director in writing for a hearing on the application. On filing the petition, the director shall fix a date for the hearing. B. The applicant has the right to be present at the hearing, to…

A. A licensed motor vehicle dealer may conduct an off-premises exhibition, an off-premises display and sales or a special event by permit. B. An Arizona franchised new car dealer association may conduct a motor vehicle show by permit. C. An exhibitor that does not have a licensed…

A. A motor vehicle dealer who is licensed to sell only recreational vehicles as defined in section 28-3102 and who is the only franchisee for that line-make in the county in which the motor vehicle dealer is licensed may exhibit and sell those recreational vehicles at a fair or s…

A. A licensee shall keep and maintain at the licensee's established place of business, or place of business if the licensee is a broker or a wholesale motor vehicle dealer, a permanent record in the form prescribed by the director. The permanent record may be in an electronic for…

A. Each licensee shall keep and maintain at the licensee's place of business, or at each of the licensee's places of business if the licensee has more than one, a permanent record in a form prescribed by the director as follows: 1. Recording and describing each of the following: …

A. A license issued under this chapter: 1. Shall be conspicuously displayed in either: (a) The established place of business for which it was obtained. (b) The place of business if the licensee is a broker or a wholesale vehicle dealer. 2. Is not transferable or subject to sale o…

A. Each motor vehicle dealer and automotive recycler shall erect and maintain at the entrance to the motor vehicle dealer's or automotive recycler's established place of business a permanent sign indicating that the business of a motor vehicle dealer or automotive recycler is con…

Each person issued a license pursuant to this chapter shall: 1. Include business hours on each renewal application. 2. Provide written notice of any change in business hours to the director at least ten days before the change to the hours.

Before a licensee moves from one established place of business to another, or from one place of business to another if the licensee is a broker or a wholesale motor vehicle dealer, the licensee shall apply to and obtain consent to the removal from the director.

A. Except as provided in section 28-4410: 1. Each dealer in motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers, including manufacturers who sell to other than dealers, having possession of or offering for sale a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer shall have at the same time either: (a)…

A. A dealer in motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers may possess and offer for sale a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer without having a duly or regularly assigned certificate of title or title transfer form in the dealer's possession if the dealer possesses all of the fo…

A. A public consignment auction dealer is exempt from the following: 1. An implied warranty of merchantability described in section 28-4412, subsection B and section 44-1267. 2. An emissions inspection pursuant to section 49-542, subsection D. B. A public consignment auction deal…

A. Except as provided in subsection B: 1. A manufacturer shall disclose in writing to a new motor vehicle dealer damage to a new motor vehicle delivered to the dealer if the damage is known to the manufacturer and repaired, the damage occurred after the manufacturing process is c…

A. Before the consummation of the sale of a used motor vehicle, a motor vehicle dealer shall: 1. Provide each purchaser with a written statement that: (a) Indicates whether or not an express warranty or guaranty is associated with the used motor vehicle. (b) Is distinguished from…

A. A manufacturer, factory branch, distributor or distributor branch or a subsidiary of a manufacturer, factory branch, distributor or distributor branch shall not directly or indirectly own, operate or control, except on an emergency or interim basis, a new motor vehicle warrant…

A. A new motor vehicle dealer shall make available to the public information on alternative fuel vehicles and incentives in this state for purchasing or leasing alternative fuel vehicles. B. For the purposes of this section, "alternative fuel" has the same meaning prescribed in s…