Licenses issued by the board under the Motor Vehicle Industry Regulation Act shall be of the classes set out in this section and shall permit the business activities described in this section:

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 60-1406

  • Auction: means a sale of motor vehicles and trailers of types required to be registered in this state, except such vehicles as are eligible for registration pursuant to section 60-3,198, sold or offered for sale at which the price offered is increased by the prospective buyers who bid against one another, the highest bidder becoming the purchaser. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.04
  • Auction dealer: means any person engaged in the business of conducting an auction for the sale of motor vehicles and trailers. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.05
  • Board: means the Nebraska Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Board. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.06
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Distributor: means a person, resident or nonresident of this state, who, in whole or in part, sells or distributes new motor vehicles, trailers, or motorcycles to dealers or who maintains distributors or representatives who sell or distribute motor vehicles, trailers, or motorcycles to dealers and also has the same meaning as the term franchisor. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.13
  • Distributor representative: means a representative employed by a distributor or distributor branch for the same purpose as set forth in the definition of factory representative. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.14
  • Factory branch: means a branch office maintained in this state by a person who manufactures, assembles, or distributes motor vehicles, motorcycles, or trailers for the sale of such motor vehicles, motorcycles, or trailers to distributors or dealers or for directing or supervising, in whole or in part, its representatives in this state. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.16
  • Factory representative: means a representative employed by a person who manufactures or assembles motor vehicles, motorcycles, or trailers, or by a factory branch, for the purpose of promoting the sale of its motor vehicles, motorcycles, or trailers to, or for supervising or contacting, its dealers or prospective dealers in this state. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.17
  • Finance company: means any person engaged in the business of financing sales of motor vehicles, motorcycles, or trailers, or purchasing or acquiring promissory notes, secured instruments, or other documents by which the motor vehicles, motorcycles, or trailers are pledged as security for payment of obligations arising from such sales and who may find it necessary to engage in the activity of repossession and the sale of the motor vehicles, motorcycles, or trailers so pledged. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.18
  • Manufactured home: means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which in the traveling mode is eight body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length or when erected on site is three hundred twenty or more square feet and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained in the structure, except that manufactured home includes any structure that meets all of the requirements of this section other than the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and complies with the standards established under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.23
  • Manufacturer: means any person, resident or nonresident of this state, who is engaged in the business of distributing, manufacturing, or assembling a line-make of new motor vehicles, trailers, or motorcycles and distributes them directly or indirectly through one or more distributors to one or more new motor vehicle, trailer, or motorcycle dealers in this state and also has the same meaning as the term franchisor. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.24
  • Motor vehicle: means any vehicle for which evidence of title is required as a condition precedent to registration under the laws of this state but does not include trailers. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.25
  • Motorcycle: means every motor vehicle, except a tractor, having a seat or saddle for use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground and for which evidence of title is required as a condition precedent to registration under the laws of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.28
  • Person: means every natural person, firm, partnership, limited liability company, association, or corporation. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.31
  • Person shall: include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • Trailer: means semitrailers and trailers as defined in sections 60-348 and 60-354, respectively, which are required to be licensed as commercial trailers, other vehicles without motive power constructed so as to permit their being used as conveyances upon the public streets and highways and so constructed as not to be attached to real estate and to permit the vehicle to be used for human habitation by one or more persons, and camping trailers, slide-in campers, fold-down campers, and fold-down tent trailers. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.36
  • Trailer dealer: means any person, other than a bona fide consumer, actively and regularly engaged in the business of selling or exchanging new or used trailers and manufactured homes. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.37
  • Wrecker or salvage dealer: means any person who acquires one or more motor vehicles or trailers for the purpose of dismantling them for the purpose of reselling the parts or reselling the vehicles as scrap. See Nebraska Statutes 60-1401.40

(1) Motor vehicle dealer’s license. This license permits the licensee to engage in the business of selling or exchanging new, used, or new and used motor vehicles, trailers, and manufactured homes at the established place of business designated in the license and another place or places of business located within three hundred feet of the designated place of business and within the city or county described in the original license. This license permits the sale of a trade-in or consignment mobile home greater than forty feet in length and eight feet in width and located at a place other than the dealer’s established place of business. This license permits one person, either the licensee, if he or she is the individual owner of the licensed business, or a stockholder, officer, partner, or member of the licensee, to act as a motor vehicle, trailer, and manufactured home salesperson and the name of the authorized person shall appear on the license;

(2) Manufacturer license. This license permits the licensee to engage in the activities of a motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer manufacturer or manufacturer’s factory branch;

(3) Distributor license. This license permits the licensee to engage in the activities of a motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer distributor;

(4) Factory representative license. This license permits the licensee to engage in the activities of a factory branch representative;

(5) Factory branch license. This license permits the licensee to maintain a branch office in this state;

(6) Distributor representative license. This license permits the licensee to engage in the activities of a distributor representative;

(7) Finance company license. This license permits the licensee to engage in the activities of repossession of motor vehicles or trailers and the sale of such motor vehicles or trailers so repossessed;

(8) Wrecker or salvage dealer license. This license permits the licensee to engage in the business of acquiring motor vehicles or trailers for the purpose of dismantling the motor vehicles or trailers and selling or otherwise disposing of the parts and accessories of motor vehicles or trailers;

(9) Supplemental motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer dealer‘s license. This license permits the licensee to engage in the business of selling or exchanging motor vehicles, motorcycles, or trailers of the type designated in his or her dealer’s license at a specified place of business which is located more than three hundred feet from any part of the place of business designated in the original motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer dealer’s license but which is located within the city or county described in such original license;

(10) Motorcycle dealer’s license. This license permits the licensee to engage in the business of selling or exchanging new, used, or new and used motorcycles at the established place of business designated in the license and another place or places of business located within three hundred feet of the designated place of business and within the city or county described in the original license. This form of license permits one person named on the license, either the licensee, if he or she is the individual owner of the licensed business, or a stockholder, officer, partner, or member of the licensee, to act as a motorcycle salesperson and the name of the authorized person shall appear on the license;

(11) Motor vehicle auction dealer’s license. This license permits the licensee to engage in the business of selling motor vehicles and trailers. This form of license permits one person named on the license, either the licensee, if he or she is the individual owner of the licensed business, or a stockholder, officer, partner, or member of the licensee, to act as a motor vehicle auction dealer‘s salesperson and the name of the authorized person shall appear on the license;

(12) Trailer dealer’s license. This license permits the licensee to engage in the business of selling or exchanging new, used, or new and used trailers and manufactured homes at the established place of business designated in the license and another place or places of business located within three hundred feet of the designated place of business and within the city or county described in the original license. This form of license permits one person named on the license, either the licensee, if he or she is the individual owner of the licensed business, or a stockholder, officer, partner, or member of the licensee, to act as a trailer and manufactured home salesperson and the name of the authorized person shall appear on the license; and

(13) Dealer’s agent license. This license permits the licensee to act as the buying agent for one or more licensed motor vehicle dealers, motorcycle dealers, or trailer dealers. The agent shall act in accordance with a written contract and file a copy of the contract with the board. The dealer shall be bound by and liable for the actions of the agent. The dealer’s agent shall disclose in writing to each dealer with which the agent contracts as an agent the names of all other dealers contracting with the agent. The agent shall make each purchase on behalf of and in the name of only one dealer and may purchase for dealers only at auctions and only from licensed dealers. The agent shall not act as a licensed dealer and is not authorized to sell any vehicle pursuant to this license.

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