1.    A person may not engage in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging of mobile homes, manufactured homes, or travel trailers, or advertise or hold that person out to the public as being in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging of mobile homes, manufactured homes, or travel trailers without first being licensed.

2.    Application for a dealer’s license and renewal license must be made to the department on forms the department prescribes and furnishes, and the application must be accompanied by an annual fee of thirty-five dollars for which must be issued one dealer plate. A dealer’s license expires on December thirty-first of each year, and application for renewal of a dealer’s license must be made on or before the expiration of the current dealer’s license.

3.    A mobile home or manufactured home dealer’s license must be issued only to those who will maintain a permanent office and place of business, and an adequate service department, during the licensing year, and will abide by all the provisions of law pertaining to mobile home or manufactured home dealers.

4.    In addition, the dealer shall maintain that person’s business records in one central location.

5.    Upon the payment of the fee of ten dollars for each additional plate, the department shall register and issue dealer’s license plates for use on any mobile or manufactured homes owned by the licensed dealer, and the mobile and manufactured homes bearing the dealer’s license plates may be lawfully operated upon the public highways of the state of North Dakota by the dealer, and the dealer’s agents and servants, during the year of the registration. A dealer’s license plates expire on December thirty-first of each year.

6.    The term “mobile home” as used in this chapter includes and has the same meaning as “housetrailer”, and both terms have the meaning prescribed in section 39-01-01. The terms “travel trailer” and “manufactured home” as used in this chapter have the meaning as prescribed in section 39-01-01.

7.    Any mobile home or manufactured home dealer licensed under this chapter may sell house cars without being licensed under chapter 39-22. A mobile home or manufactured home dealer plate displayed on a house car must be displayed on the rear of the vehicle.

8.    Any dealer violating this chapter must be assessed a one hundred dollar fee by the department for a first violation and a two hundred dollar fee by the department for a second violation within two years of the first violation. The department shall suspend the license of a mobile home or manufactured home dealer licensed under this chapter if a third or subsequent violation of this chapter occurs within five years of the first violation.