322.29 Issuance of license — fees.

1. Application for license shall be made to the department by a manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler, in a form and containing information as the department requires and shall be accompanied by the required license fee. The license shall be granted or refused within thirty days after application. A license expires, unless sooner revoked or suspended, on December 31 of even-numbered years. A licensee shall have the month of expiration and the month after the month of expiration to renew the license. A person who fails to renew a license by the end of this time period and desires to hold a license shall file a new license application and pay the required fee.

2. License fees for each two-year period or part thereof are as follows:

a. For a motor vehicle manufacturer, seventy dollars.

b. For a new motor vehicle distributor or wholesaler, forty dollars.

3. A license shall not be issued to a person as a distributor or wholesaler for a new motor vehicle model unless the distributor or wholesaler has written authorization from the manufacturer as a distributor or wholesaler of the motor vehicle model.

4. Upon payment of the license fee as provided in this section, a person who rebuilds new completed motor vehicles by fabricating, altering, adding, or replacing essential parts, components, or equipment for the purpose of building an ambulance, rescue vehicle, fire vehicle, or towing or recovery vehicle as defined in chapter 321 may be issued a license as a wholesaler of new motor vehicles of the make and model rebuilt without written authorization from the manufacturer.

5. Upon payment of the license fee as provided in this section, a person who installs cranes, hook loaders, buckets, aerial ladders, tanks, or special equipment on new completed motor trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of fourteen thousand five hundred pounds or more may be issued a license as a wholesaler of new motor vehicles of the make and model on which the equipment is installed without written authorization from the manufacturer.

6. Notwithstanding section 322.3, subsection 14, a person licensed as a wholesaler under subsection 4 may be licensed as a used motor vehicle dealer.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §322.29]

88 Acts, ch 1047, §2; 97 Acts, ch 108, §38; 2000 Acts, ch 1016, §21, 22; 2001 Acts, ch 32, §34; 2006 Acts, ch 1068, §37, 49 – 51, 57; 2007 Acts, ch 102, §2; 2008 Acts, ch 1018, §27