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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="13-625" title_number="13" title_name="Vehicle Laws -- Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Special Registration Plates">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “transporter” means a person in the business of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Delivering vehicles of a type required to be registered under this title from a manufacturing, assembling, or distributing plant to point of destination;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Transporting or moving these vehicles to or from places of business for repair, painting, remodeling, or installing equipment or for the transportation of recovered stolen vehicles by insurance companies;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A licensed auctioneer acting on behalf of a seller exempt from the licensing requirements of § 15–101(c)(3)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), and (vi) of this article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Transporting new or used mobile or modular homes.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Any transporter may apply to the Administration for:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Registration of its business; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On registration, the issuance of as many special, transporter registration plates as the Administration authorizes.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Each application under this section shall be accompanied by evidence that the transporter:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is engaged in the business of transporting new or used motor vehicles, new or used trailers, or mobile construction equipment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Is subject to at least two written contracts under which the transporter is to repair, paint, remodel, or install equipment on vehicles or auction vehicles;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Is a licensed inspection station under Title 23 of this article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Is certified by the Interstate Commerce Commission or the United States government to transport vehicles as evidenced by the applicant’s certificate of public convenience and necessity and Interstate Commerce Commission docket number.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A transporter may not be registered under this section unless the business of the transporter:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is equipped to perform the services indicated on the application; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Has facilities adequate for the type of business that the transporter proposes to conduct.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The registration of a transporter under this section expires at the time that the Administration designates when it registers the transporter.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>After the expiration of its registration, a transporter may not exercise the privileges granted by this section until his registration has been renewed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>A transporter registered under this section immediately shall notify the Administration in writing of any change of address, business name, business designation, or any other information given on or with his last application for registration or renewal.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>Transporter registration plates may be used only:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>On a vehicle in the possession of, but not owned by, the transporter, if the vehicle is operated to facilitate delivery, inspection, repair, painting, remodeling, the installation of equipment on it, or relocation among storage facilities and points of pickup and delivery, and not for any personal, private, or public use; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On a new or used mobile or modular home, if the transporter submits evidence of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Proper registration of the towing vehicle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Commercial insurance as required by the Administration.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
