No person, partnership, association, corporation, or limited liability company may engage in the business of buying, selling, leasing, or exchanging ultralight vehicles, or advertise or hold out to the public as being in the business of buying, selling, leasing, or exchanging of ultralight vehicles without first being licensed as provided in this chapter.

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 2-08-04

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33

The aeronautics commission shall prescribe and furnish license and renewal license application forms. A nonrefundable fee of fifty dollars must accompany each application for each dealer location. A dealer’s license expires on December thirty-first of each year, and application for renewal must be made before the expiration of the current dealer’s license. For each annual fifty dollar license fee or renewal, the dealer must be issued one dealer’s registration for one demonstrator ultralight vehicle. Additional dealer’s demonstrator ultralight vehicle registrations must be issued to a licensed dealer upon the payment of ten dollars for each additional demonstrator ultralight vehicle. Fees from license applications of ultralight vehicle dealers and any other fees received for additional demonstrator ultralight vehicle registrations must be deposited in the aeronautics commission special fund.

An ultralight vehicle dealer shall maintain a permanent place of business in North Dakota which may be off or on an airport; provided, if the place of the business is off an airport, such dealer shall maintain a cleared area of sufficient size and length to safely demonstrate ultralight vehicles without undue approach hazards or hazards to other persons or property. The dealer shall maintain business records in the dealer’s place of business. An ultralight dealer to qualify for a dealer’s license shall maintain at least one flyable ultralight vehicle for demonstration purposes and shall maintain a minimum of five hundred dollars in tools, equipment, parts, or supplies to provide service for ultralight vehicles. The aeronautics commission has the option of inspection of each ultralight dealer prior to issuing a dealer’s license or a renewal.