8-2406. Dealer plates; fee; symbols on plates; use of plates.
8-2406
8-2406. Dealer plates; fee; symbols on plates; use of plates.
(a) The annual fee for
the first dealer license plate is $275, and the annual fee for additional
dealer license plates shall be an amount equal to the amount required to
register a passenger vehicle having a gross weight of less than 4,500
pounds, except that the annual fee for dealer
license plates used by trailer dealers
on trailers which they have purchased or own and are holding for resale
shall be $25 for each plate.
To determine the number of dealer license plates
the dealer needs, the director may base the decision on
the dealer's past sales, inventory and any other pertinent
factors as the director may determine. After the end of the first year of
licensure as a dealer, not more than one dealer license plate shall be issued
to any
dealer who has not reported to the division the sale of at least five motor
vehicles in the preceding year. There shall be no refund of fees
for dealer license plates in the event of suspension, revocation or
voluntary cancellation of a license. The director is hereby authorized
to designate by identifying symbols on a dealer's license plate the type
of dealer's license that the person has been issued. If a dealer has an
established place of business in more than one
county, such dealer shall secure a separate and distinct
dealer's license and dealer license plates for each established place of
business.
(b) New motor vehicle dealers and used motor vehicle dealers may
authorize use of dealer license plates assigned to such motor vehicle
dealers as follows:
(1) The licensed motor vehicle dealer and such dealer's spouse;
(2) the sales manager and all other sales personnel when such
manager and sales personnel are
properly licensed in Kansas, except that no dealer license plate shall be
assigned to sales personnel who are working at the established place of
business of the dealer less than 20 hours per week;
(3) any employee of such motor vehicle dealer when the use thereof
is directly connected to a particular business transaction of such motor
vehicle dealer;
(4) the customer when operating a motor vehicle in connection with
negotiations to purchase such motor vehicle or during a demonstration of
such motor vehicle;
(5) any school district and any accredited nonpublic school which has
entered into an agreement with a
dealer to use a motor vehicle as a driver training motor vehicle, as
defined in K.S.A. 72-5015, and amendments thereto, in an approved driver
training course.
(c) A wholesaler dealer may authorize the use of dealer license
plates on vehicles purchased by the wholesaler for resale to a retail
vehicle dealer as follows:
(1) To transport or operate a vehicle to or from a licensed retail
or wholesale vehicle dealer for the purpose of buying, selling, or
offering or attempting to negotiate a sale of the vehicle to a licensed
vehicle dealer;
(2) to deliver a vehicle purchased from the wholesale vehicle dealer
to a purchasing vehicle dealer.
(d) Salvage vehicle dealers may use dealer license plates only on
vehicles which they have purchased for salvage, including dismantling,
disassembling or recycling.
(e) Insurance companies may use dealer license plates only on vehicles
purchased or acquired for salvage in the course of business of the insurance company.
(f) Lending agencies may use dealer license plates only on vehicles
which they have repossessed or are holding for disposition due to
repossession.
(g) Trailer dealers may use dealer license plates only on trailers
which they have purchased or own and are holding for resale.
(h) Brokers are not entitled to be assigned or to use any
dealer license plates.
(i) Except as provided above, dealer license plates shall be used
only in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 8-136, and
amendments thereto. This subsection (i) does not apply to K.S.A. 8-2425, and
amendments thereto, or full-privilege license plates
or dealer-hauler full-privilege trailer license plates
issued thereunder.
History: L. 1980, ch. 36, § 6; L. 1981, ch. 48, § 6;
L. 1985, ch. 54, § 3;
L. 1986, ch. 51, § 1; L. 1986, ch. 49, § 2; L. 1986, ch. 52, § 1;
L. 1989, ch. 209, § 26;
L. 1991, ch. 33, § 23;
L. 2009, ch. 36, § 1; July 1.