California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles › Chapter 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles › Article 5 - Requesting Information from the Department › Section 350.02 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
As used in this article the following definitions shall
					 apply;
(a) Agent. As authorized by the
				  department, a person or entity who is authorized by its preapproved requester
				  to access, receive, or use departmental record information on behalf of its
				  preapproved requester.
(b) Business
				  Use. Use for any approved governmental or commercial purpose. This includes
				  both nonprofit and charitable purposes.
(c) Casual Requester. Any person who is
				  requesting information from the department's files and is not a preapproved
				  requester.
(d) Commercial Requester
				  Account. An account opened to assure timely billing and payment due the
				  department for the sale of information and identified by a unique
				  number.
(e) Commercial Requester
				  Account Agreement. An agreement entered into between the department and a
				  nongovernmental entity applying for preapproved status to request information
				  from the files of the department. The signing of the agreement by both the
				  nongovernmental entity and a representative of the department constitutes the
				  basis to establish a Commercial Requester Account and becomes part of the
				  Commercial Requester Account Application required in section
				  350.16.
(f) Direct Requester. A requester code holder
				  who makes information requests directly to the department, and is billed
				  directly by the department through a Commercial Requester Account.
(g) End User. Any requester code holder for
				  whose use information is requested from the department's records. An end user
				  may be either the person requesting the information or another person on whose
				  behalf the information is requested.
(h) Governmental Entity. The United States
				  Government or any subdivision, department, court or agency thereof; the state
				  or any subdivision, department, court or agency thereof, including special
				  districts, school districts, the Board of Regents of the University of
				  California; and any city, county, city and county or any agency or subdivision
				  thereof.
(i) Indirect Requester. A
				  requester code holder making requests for department information from another
				  requester code holder.
(j) Mailing
				  Address. An address, reported separately from the residence address, reported
				  to the department as the address where mail is to be delivered to the
				  addressee. A mailing address is mandatory only when mail cannot be delivered to
				  the reporting individual's residence address. Otherwise a mailing address is
				  optional.
(k) On-Line Access.
				  Direct access to the department's electronic data base through computerized
				  equipment and communications lines furnished and maintained at no cost to the
				  department.
(l) Person. A natural
				  person, governmental entity, partnership, corporation, association, or the
				  fictitious name under which one of the aforementioned does business.
(m) Personal Identification Number. A unique
				  configuration of numbers and letters assigned by the department to requester
				  code holders for use in conjunction with a requester code whenever the
				  department in its sole discretion wishes to validate the identity of a direct
				  requester when information is requested by telephone or in person. Personal
				  identification numbers may be changed at the request of the person to whom
				  issued or at the sole discretion of the department.
(n) Preapproved Requester. Any person issued
				  a requester code pursuant to sections
				  350.08 or
				  350.26.
(o) Public. All natural persons,
				  partnerships, corporations or associations. The public does not include
				  governmental entities, preapproved requesters, natural persons requesting
				  information concerning themselves or their spouses or minor children, and
				  partnerships, corporations or associations requesting information concerning
				  vehicles registered to the partnership, corporation or association.
(p) Requester Code. A unique configuration of
				  numbers or letters and numbers assigned by the department to identify a
				  requester.
(q) Residence Address. A
				  residence address is the address reported to the department by an individual as
				  the place where that individual resides.
(r) Special Permit. A signed agreement
				  between the department and a Commercial Requester Account holder authorized
				  on-line access to the department's electronic data base.
(s) Vehicle Dealer's Agent. A person
				  certified by a vehicle dealer, licensed to do business in California, as its
				  agent for the purpose of obtaining information directly from the department as
				  a preapproved requester, pursuant to section
				  1808.23, subdivision (b), of the
				  Vehicle Code.
(t) Vehicle
				  Manufacturer's Agent. A person certified by a vehicle manufacturer, licensed to
				  do business in California, as its agent for the purpose of obtaining
				  information directly from the department, either as a preapproved requester or
				  a nonpreapproved requester, pursuant to section
				  1808.23(a)
				  of the Vehicle Code.
1. Change
					 without regulatory effect renumbering and amending former section
					 320.02 to section
					 350.02 and amending and
					 repositioning article 5 heading filed 7-19-93 pursuant to title 1, section
					 100, California Code of
					 Regulations (Register 93, No. 30).
2. Amendment of subsection (a),
					 new subsection (c), subsection relettering, repealer of subsection (j) and
					 amendment of subsections (p) and (s) filed 6-13-2001; operative 7-13-2001
					 (Register 2001, No. 24).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						1651 and
						1810, Vehicle
						Code; and Section
						1798.26, Civil
						Code. Reference: Sections
						470,
						1808.21,
						1808.22,
						1808.23,
						1810,
						1810.2,
						1810.7 and
						1811, Vehicle
						Code; and Section
						1798, Civil
						Code.