28-4545. Manufacturer's and dealer's permit to
move without license plates


A manufacturer of motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers may operate or move the
vehicles for a distance of seventy-five miles and a dealer in new motor vehicles,
trailers or semitrailers may operate or move the vehicles for a distance of fifty miles,
or a further distance authorized by the department, to or from the factory where the
vehicles are manufactured or a railway depot, vessel, place of shipment or delivery or
salesroom without registering them and without license plates attached if both:


1. A written permit is first obtained from the department or local authority with
jurisdiction over the highway traversed.


2. A placard bearing the name and address of the manufacturer authorizing or
directing the movement is prominently displayed on each vehicle and is plainly readable
from a distance of one hundred feet during daylight.