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Louisiana | RS 32:735 Auto title companies; licensing; regulation; fees, suspension, and revocation; domicile; surety bonds; expiration and renewal dates | Rabbit Crowd Library
§735. Auto title companies; licensing; regulation; fees, suspension, and revocation;
domicile; surety bonds; expiration and renewal dates
A. Except as otherwise provided by law, only auto title companies, as defined by
R.S. 32:702, who have confected a contract with the Department of Public Safety and
Corrections, office of motor vehicles, shall be allowed to issue temporary registrations as
provided in R.S. 47:519.2. Eligibility to contract under the provisions of this Section shall
be limited to those persons of good moral character, who maintain an office within the state,
have executed a good and sufficient surety bond that meets the requirements of R.S. 32:736,
and have paid the annual fee required by Subsection C of this Section.
B. The department shall promulgate such rules as are necessary to implement this
Section. Such rules may include guidelines for eligibility to contract with the department,
criteria for the suspension, revocation, or cancellation of a contract, or any other matter the
department deems necessary for the proper oversight of auto title companies.
C. A biennial fee of four hundred dollars shall be collected from a person seeking
to contract with the department prior to the person commencing to act as an auto title
company as provided in this Section. The contract and bond shall be valid for additional
locations when such locations are under the same ownership, management, and control as
that of the authorized auto title company. However, for the initial contract request and for
each subsequent contract request, the auto title company shall pay an additional one hundred
dollars for each additional location.
D. Every contract between the department and an authorized auto title company
authorized by this Section shall expire as of the first day of June two years following the year
in which such license was issued and may be automatically renewed by the Department of
Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor vehicles.
E. Each contract perfected pursuant to this Section shall be renewed biennially at
least sixty days in advance of the expiration date of the contract by submitting to the office
of motor vehicles an application for renewal upon a form supplied by that office, together
with the renewal fee and the surety bond for the renewal period.
Acts 1992, No. 626, §2; Acts 1993, No. 463, §1; Acts 1993, No. 737, §1; Acts 1993,
No. 1005, §1; Acts 2006, No. 409, §1; Acts 2016, No. 606, §1.
Rs 2:605 Operation And Use Privileges
Rs 27:75 Renewal Of Licenses; Penalties
Rs 37:2168 Term Of License; Renewal Of License
Rs 27:250 Renewal Of Licenses; Penalties
Rs 22:490 Registration And Annual Renewal; Fees
• TITLE 54 Warehouses
Rs 54:114 Petition And Bond
Rs 22:1261 Renewal Of Policy; Increase In Premiums Prohibited