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 350.52 - Refusal, Suspension or Revocation of Requester Codes

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The department may suspend or revoke a
				  requester code or an on-line access special permit, may refuse to issue a
				  requester code or on-line access special permit, or may refuse to approve
				  access to confidential address information, after notice and opportunity to be
				  heard, for any of the following reasons:
(1)
				  The application is incomplete.
(2)
				  The applicant requests access to residence address information when not
				  authorized such access pursuant to statute, regulation, or rule of
				  court.
(3) Based on the applicant's
				  stated purpose for requesting information, the department determines that the
				  public interest in withholding the information outweighs the public interest in
				  releasing the information.
(4) The
				  information on the application for a requester code is incorrect, false,
				  misleading, or identifies an intended misuse of the information
				  requested.
(5) The applicant, or a
				  representative of the applicant, was previously the holder or a managerial
				  employee of the holder of a requester code revoked for cause and never reissued
				  by the department, or suspended for cause and the terms of the suspension are
				  not fulfilled. For the purposes of this subdivision, a representative means a
				  proprietor, limited or general partner, a managerial employee, or a director or
				  officer active in the management, direction, or control of the business of the
				  requester code holder. A managerial employee is any person who exercises
				  managerial control over the business of a requester code holder.
(6) The holder, or any employee of the
				  holder, used information received from the department for a purpose other than
				  the purpose stated in the holder's application for a requester code.
(7) The bond required pursuant to section
				  350.24 is canceled and a
				  replacement bond is not filed with the department prior to the
				  cancellation.
(8) The holder
				  submitted a check, draft, or money order to the department, that was thereafter
				  dishonored when presented for payment.
(9) The holder sold or otherwise delivered
				  information obtained from the department to a person other than the requester
				  code holder for whom the information was obtained except as provided for in
				  section 350.18(b)(6).
(10) The holder failed to pay for information
				  received from the department.
(11)
				  The holder or any representative of the holder represented to any person that
				  the holder or such representative as an officer, agent or employee of the
				  department.
(12) The holder
				  published any false or misleading advertising related to the purchase of
				  information from the department.
(13) The holder used the DMV logogram in any
				  advertising or other materials used in the business of the holder. If the
				  holder uses the DMV logogram in any advertising, the advertising shall neither
				  state nor infer that there is any official connection between DMV and the
				  advertiser or that DMV has sanctioned or approved of either the advertisement
				  or the advertiser's services.
(14)
				  The holder violated any of the provisions contained in this
				  article.