[§251-3]  Certificate of registration. (a)  Each person as a condition precedent to engaging or continuing in thebusiness of providing rental motor vehicles to the public or engaging orcontinuing in the tour vehicle operator business shall register with thedirector.  A person required to so register shall make a one-time payment of$20, upon receipt of which the director shall issue a certificate ofregistration in such form as the director determines, attesting that theregistration has been made.  The registration shall not be transferable andshall be valid only for the person in whose name it is issued and for thetransaction of business at the place designated therein.  The registration, orin lieu thereof a notice stating where the registration may be inspected andexamined, shall at all times be conspicuously displayed at the place for whichit is issued.

(b)  The registration shall be effective untilcanceled in writing.  Any application for the reissuance of a previouslycanceled registration identification number shall be regarded as a newregistration application and shall be subject to the payment of the one-timeregistration fee in subsection (a).  The director may revoke or cancel anycertificate of registration issued under this chapter for cause as provided byrule under chapter 91.

(c)  If the registration fee is paid, thedepartment shall not refuse to issue a registration or revoke or cancel aregistration for the exercise of a privilege protected by the first amendmentof the Constitution of the United States, or for the carrying on of interstateor foreign commerce, or for any privilege the exercise of which, under theConstitution and laws of the United States, cannot be restrained on account ofnonpayment of taxes, nor shall section 251-13 be invoked to restrain theexercise of such a privilege, or the carrying on of such commerce.

(d)  Any person who may lawfully be required bythe State, and who is required by this chapter, to register as a conditionprecedent to engaging or continuing in the business of providing rental motorvehicles or tour vehicles to the public subject to taxation under this chapter,who engages or continues in the business without registering in conformity withthis chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.  Any officer or director of acorporation who permits, aids, or abets the corporation to engage or continuein business without registering in conformity with this chapter, shall likewisebe guilty of a misdemeanor.  The penalty for the misdemeanors shall be thatprescribed by section 231-34 for violation of that section. [L 1991, c 263, ptof §1]