California Vehicle Code 12121 – (a) Section 12120 does not apply to a dealer licensed pursuant …
(a) Section 12120 does not apply to a dealer licensed pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11700) when acting under authority of the license, or to his or her authorized agent.
(b) Section 12120 does not prohibit the sale of a vehicle by any of the following persons not engaged in the business of selling vehicles:
Terms Used In California Vehicle Code 12121
- business: includes a proprietorship, partnership, corporation, and any other form of commercial enterprise. See California Vehicle Code 234
- Dealer: is a person not otherwise expressly excluded by Section 286 who:
California Vehicle Code 285
- Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- legal owner: is a person holding a security interest in a vehicle which is subject to the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, or the lessor of a vehicle to the State or to any county, city, district, or political subdivision of the State, or to the United States, under a lease, lease-sale, or rental-purchase agreement which grants possession of the vehicle to the lessee for a period of 30 consecutive days or more. See California Vehicle Code 370
- owner: is a person having all the incidents of ownership, including the legal title of a vehicle whether or not such person lends, rents, or creates a security interest in the vehicle. See California Vehicle Code 460
- Person: includes a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Vehicle Code 470
- registered owner: is a person registered by the department as the owner of a vehicle. See California Vehicle Code 505
- representative: is a ny person regularly employed by a manufacturer or distributor for the purpose of negotiating or promoting the sale of the manufacturer's or distributer's vehicles to their franchisees or for regularly supervising or contacting franchisees or prospective franchisees in this state for any purpose. See California Vehicle Code 512
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- vehicle: is a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved, or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device moved exclusively by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See California Vehicle Code 670
(1) Anyone related by blood, adoption, or marriage to the registered owner.
(2) The receiver, administrator, executor, guardian, or other person appointed by, or acting under, a judgment or order of any court.
(3) The trustee of a trust in which the vehicle is registered as an asset.
(4) Any public officer in the performance of his or her official duties.
(5) An attorney on behalf of a client who is the registered owner.
(6) The owner, officer, or designated representative of a business in whose name the vehicle is registered.
(7) The legal owner as shown on the certificate of ownership.
(8) A person who has prior written authorization from the registered owner of the vehicle, and that person does not receive or expect to receive a commission, money, brokerage fees, profit, or any other thing of value from either the seller or purchaser of the vehicle.
(9) An insurer selling the salvage of one of its insured’s vehicle or the stolen vehicle of one of its insured which has been recovered.
(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 668, Sec. 1.)