1. Application for license shall be made to the department by a manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler, in a form and containing information as the department requires and shall be accompanied by the required license fee. The license shall be granted or refused within thirty days after application, and shall expire, unless sooner revoked or suspended, on December 31 of the calendar year for which it is granted. A licensee shall have the month of December of the calendar year for which the license was granted and the following month of January to renew the license. A person who fails to renew a license by the end of this time period and desires to hold a license shall file a new license application and pay the required fee.
2. License fees for each calendar year, or part thereof, shall be as follows effective January 1, 1998:
a. For a motor vehicle manufacturer, thirty-five dollars.
b. For a new motor vehicle distributor or wholesaler, twenty dollars.
c. For a used motor vehicle distributor or wholesaler, ten dollars.
3. A license shall not be issued to a person as a distributor or wholesaler for a new motor vehicle model unless the distributor or wholesaler has written authorization from the manufacturer as a distributor or wholesaler of the motor vehicle model.
4. Upon payment of the license fee as provided in this section, a person who rebuilds new completed motor vehicles by fabricating, altering, adding, or replacing essential parts, components, or equipment for the purpose of building an ambulance, rescue vehicle, fire vehicle, or towing or recovery vehicle as defined in chapter 321 may be issued a license as a wholesaler of new motor vehicles of the make and model rebuilt without written authorization from the manufacturer.
5. Upon payment of the license fee as provided in this section, a person who installs cranes, hook loaders, buckets, aerial ladders, or tanks on new completed motor trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of nineteen thousand pounds or more may be issued a license as a wholesaler of new motor vehicles of the make and model on which the equipment is installed without written authorization from the manufacturer.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 322.29]
88 Acts, ch 1047, § 2; 97 Acts, ch 108, §38; 2000 Acts, ch 1016, §21, 22
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