Title 28, Transportation

Notwithstanding section 28-4547, the director may furnish to licensed manufacturers or new motor vehicle dealers temporary registration permits that the manufacturer or dealer may issue if temporarily donating new motor vehicles to either of the following: 1. An organization that…

A dealer who issues temporary registration plates shall send to the department through an authorized third party or the department's authorized third party electronic service provider before the dealer issues the plates an electronic record of the temporary registration plates. T…

A person who issues temporary registration plates shall affix or insert, clearly and indelibly, on the face of each temporary registration plate the date of issuance and expiration and the make and vehicle identification number of the vehicle. The temporary registration plates sh…

A. A temporary registration plate expires and is void on receipt of a license plate provided pursuant to section 28-2351 or a year validating tab or on expiration of forty-five days from the date of issuance. B. A person to whom a temporary registration plate has been issued shal…

A. A dealer to whom temporary registration plates are issued shall maintain in permanent form a record of all temporary registration plates delivered to the dealer, a record of all temporary registration plates issued by the dealer and a record of other information pertaining to …

A. A dealer shall not lend to a person or use on a vehicle that the dealer owns temporary registration plates. B. A person shall not: 1. Issue a temporary registration plate before sending an electronic record to the department. A person who violates this paragraph is guilty of a…

A. If the director finds that a dealer has not complied with sections 28-4546 through 28-4553 or the directions of the director, the director may suspend the right of the dealer to issue temporary registration plates. B. A dealer who receives a notice of suspension may submit a w…

A. A manufacturer, dealer, wholesale motor vehicle auction dealer, distributor, factory branch, distributor branch, field representative or officer or an agent or representative of a manufacturer, dealer, wholesale motor vehicle auction dealer, distributor, factory branch, distri…

Except as otherwise provided by statute, the director shall immediately deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, fees collected under this article in the Arizona highway user revenue fund.

A person who violates this article or articles 1 through 7 of this chapter is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor unless another classification is specifically prescribed in this chapter.

A licensee who assigns a license to another person is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor.

A. A person who knowingly removes, defaces, alters or destroys a manufacturer's serial or identification number of a motor vehicle or major component part of a vehicle without the permission of the department is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor. B. A person who intentionally remov…

A. Except if a manufacturer's serial or identification number of a motor vehicle or major component part of a vehicle is removed, defaced, altered or destroyed with the permission of the department or is removed and reinstalled as described in section 28-2531, subsection E or if …

A. Within thirty days after the date of service of the notice required by section 28-4594, any person claiming an interest in the item seized may file a verified claim, signed by the claimant, disputing the contraband status of the item seized. The verified claim shall include th…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Driveaway or towaway methods" means the transportation service rendered by a transporter by which motor vehicles are driven singly or in combinations by the tow bar, saddle-mount or full-mount methods or a lawful combina…

This article does not apply to work or service vehicles that are owned or operated by a transporter or that are hauled by the truckaway method.

A. A transporter may apply to the department on the appropriate form for a certificate containing a general distinguishing number and for two or more single transporter license plates. B. The applicant shall submit proof of the applicant's status as a bona fide transporter as rea…

Notwithstanding any other law, a transporter may operate, move or transport a vehicle that is not the transporter's own and that is otherwise required to be registered without registering the vehicle if all of the following conditions are met: 1. The driveaway or towaway methods …

A. If a transporter operates one vehicle singly, the vehicle shall display a transporter license plate on the front of the vehicle. B. If a transporter operates and moves more than one vehicle, the first vehicle in the combination shall display one transporter license plate on th…

A. A transporter shall keep a written record of the vehicles on which the plates are used and of the date of use. The transporter shall make available to the director for inspection all of the records of the transporter. B. A copy of bills of lading showing invoices or orders or …

A. After an impartial investigation, the director may notify a transporter who is allegedly violating this article of a hearing to be held before the director after ten days. On hearing the evidence and on finding and determining that fraud has been committed in the application f…

A person who violates a provision of this article or a person who wrongfully uses or permits wrongful use of the privileges of this article by any other person is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.

A. The following fees are required: 1. For the registration certificate and the first two transporter license plates or tabs issued to a transporter, three hundred seventy-five dollars. 2. For each additional transporter license plate or tab and for replacement of each plate or t…

In lieu of complying with this article, a transporter that has a limited operation may elect to comply with all other applicable statutes.

The certificate and transporter license plates and tabs issued pursuant to this article are not transferable from the applicant and holder to any other person.

The director shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, monies received or collected by the director pursuant to this article in the Arizona highway user revenue fund before the fifteenth day of each month.

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Authorized Integrator” means a third party with whom a dealer enters into a contractual relationship to perform a specific function for a dealer that allows the third party to access protected dealer data or to write dat…

A manufacturer or a third party may not require a dealer to grant the manufacturer, the third party or any person acting on behalf of the manufacturer or third party direct or indirect access to the dealer's dealer data system. Instead of providing a manufacturer or third party w…

A. A third party may not do any of the following: 1. Access, share, sell, copy, use or transmit protected dealer data without prior express written consent. 2. Engage in any act of cyber ransom. 3. Take any action by contract, technical means or otherwise to prohibit or limit a d…

A. A dealer data vendor shall: 1. Adopt and make available a standardized framework for the exchange, integration and sharing of data from dealer data systems with authorized integrators and the retrieval of data by authorized integrators using the star standards or a standard th…

This article does not: 1. Govern, restrict or apply to data that exists outside of a dealer data system, including data that is generated by a motor vehicle or devices that a consumer connects to a motor vehicle. 2. Authorize a dealer or third party to use data that is obtained f…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Abandoned vehicle" means a vehicle, trailer or semitrailer that is of a type subject to registration under this title whether lost, stolen, abandoned or otherwise unclaimed and that has been abandoned on a public highway…

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, the owner of record of a vehicle at the time of abandonment of the vehicle is liable to the department for the transfer of ownership or disposal in an amount prescribed by the director by rule if the vehicle was: 1. Abandoned…

Fees as prescribed in this title shall not be collected if the transfer of ownership is in the name of a state agency or political subdivision.

A. The abandoned vehicle administration fund is established consisting of monies collected pursuant to section 28-4802 and all other monies collected pursuant to this chapter. The department shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated. The director…

A. If a vehicle is abandoned pursuant to section 28-4802 and a fee is collected by the department, the towing company that towed the abandoned vehicle, if still in business, is entitled to receive twenty percent of the fee collected as a partial reimbursement of the costs incurre…

A. Before the distribution of abandoned vehicle fees collected pursuant to section 28-4802, subsection C and before the distribution of vehicle license tax monies pursuant to section 28-5808, subsection D, the department shall deposit twenty percent of abandoned vehicle fees coll…

A person shall not abandon a vehicle on any street or highway or on any other public, federal, state trust, national forest, state park or bureau of land management land or private property.

A motor vehicle eligible for licensing pursuant to chapter 7, article 14 of this title or section 28-2411 is not an abandoned vehicle and shall not be seized pursuant to this chapter or any ordinance authorized by this chapter while the vehicle is stored or maintained on the vehi…

Subject to the limitations imposed by section 28-4832, an incorporated city or town may provide by ordinance for the removal and custody of abandoned vehicles on public or private property within its jurisdiction. The disposal of these vehicles shall be pursuant to this chapter.

A. An officer who has reasonable grounds to believe that a vehicle has been lost, stolen, abandoned or otherwise unclaimed may remove or cause the removal of the vehicle from any street or highway or on any other public, federal, state trust, national forest, state park or bureau…

The abandonment of a vehicle in a manner provided in this chapter is a presumption that the last registered owner of record is responsible for the abandonment and is subject to this chapter, unless either: 1. An affidavit has been filed that the vehicle was stolen pursuant to sec…

A. Except if acting under the direction of a peace officer, a person who moves or tows a vehicle into a public garage, parking lot, storage yard or automotive recycling yard or on private property without the consent of the vehicle owner or the owner's agent shall notify the law …

A. The public agency employing an officer who has removed or causes the removal of a vehicle under this chapter is not liable for the cost of towing or storing the vehicle if the officer acts under color of the officer's lawful authority. B. The owner of a vehicle that is removed…

A. A person who has knowledge and custody of a vehicle that is either lost, stolen, abandoned or otherwise unclaimed, that has been seized pursuant to law or removed from the right-of-way of any highway, road, street or other public thoroughfare or other public property by order …

A. A vehicle that is left in a public garage or parking lot for storage or parking more than ten days, that has not been left under a written contract of storage and that has not during that period been removed by the person leaving it is an abandoned vehicle. The party in posses…