A. A manufacturer, distributor, factory branch, distributor branch, motor vehicle dealer or automotive recycler shall not engage in business except in accordance with the requirements of law.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 28-4308

  • Automotive recycler: means a person that is engaged in the business of buying or acquiring a motor vehicle solely for the purpose of dismantling, selling or otherwise disposing of the parts or accessories and that removes parts for resale from six or more vehicles in a calendar year. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Dealer: means a person who is engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers and who has an established place of business and has paid fees pursuant to section 28-4302. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Distributor: means a person who either:

    (a) Sells or distributes new motor vehicles to new motor vehicle dealers in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Distributor branch: means a branch office maintained or availed of by a distributor for either:

    (a) The sale of new motor vehicles to new motor vehicle dealers in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Factory branch: means a branch office maintained or availed of by a manufacturer for either:

    (a) The sale of new motor vehicles to distributors or the sale of new motor vehicles to new motor vehicle dealers in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Financial institution: means a bank, trust company, savings and loan association, credit union, consumer lender, international banking facility or holding company that is licensed, regulated or insured by the department of insurance and financial institutions, the federal deposit insurance corporation, the office of thrift supervision, the comptroller of the currency, the national credit union share insurance fund or the national credit union administration. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • house trailer: means a vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, that is built on a chassis designed for being drawn on the highways by a motor vehicle and that is designed for human habitation. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Manufacturer: means any person who either:

    (a) Manufactures or assembles new motor vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Motor vehicle: means an automobile, motor bus, motorcycle, truck or truck tractor or any other self-propelled vehicle, trailer or semitrailer. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Motor vehicle dealer: means a new motor vehicle dealer, a used motor vehicle dealer, a public consignment auction dealer, a broker or a wholesale motor vehicle auction dealer, excluding a person who comes into possession of a motor vehicle as an incident to the person's regular business and who sells, auctions or exchanges the motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Owner: means :

    (a) A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • State: means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Trailer: means a vehicle that is with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer or single-axle tow dolly, that is designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and that is constructed so that no part of its weight rests on the towing vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

B. This chapter does not apply to:

1. A public officer engaged in the discharge of the officer’s official duties.

2. Any trustee, receiver or other officer acting under the jurisdiction of a court.

3. A financial institution disposing of a repossessed vehicle.

4. A person disposing of the person’s personal vehicles.

5. A self-service storage facility disposing of a vehicle pursuant to section 33-1704.

6. An owner of a classic car, as defined in section 28-2483, or a historic vehicle, as defined in section 28-2484, if both of the following apply:

(a) The owner sells the classic car or historic vehicle.

(b) The classic car or historic vehicle is titled in the owner’s name in this state before December 31, 2005.

C. The provisions of this chapter regulating and licensing manufacturers, distributors, factory branches, distributor branches and franchisors only apply to those manufacturers, distributors, factory branches, distributor branches and franchisors of passenger cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, trailers and semitrailers.

D. Sections of this chapter that:

1. Refer to a motor vehicle dealer apply to a new house trailer dealer.

2. Refer to a motor vehicle dealer apply to a used house trailer dealer as defined in section 28-4332.

 

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