Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 55 - PUBLIC SAFETY › Part III - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 15 - Services Provided by Persons and Business Entities › Subchapter B - Public Tag Agents › Section III-1561 - Eligibility, Suspension, Revocation, or Cancellation of Public Tag Agent's Authority

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The
				  following actions by a public tag agent, or by any of the public tag agent's
				  employees, officer's, directors, managers, representatives, or owners, may
				  subject the public tag agent to suspension, revocation, or cancellation of the
				  public tag agent's authority by the department. In the alternative, the
				  department may impose restriction on the public tag agent's authority as a
				  result of any of the following actions by the public tag agent or applicant, or
				  by any of the public tag agent's employees, officer's, directors, managers,
				  representatives, or owners. The department may also deny an application and
				  refuse to grant the applicant authority to act as a public tag agent as a
				  result of any of the following actions by the applicant, or by any of the
				  applicant's employees, officer's, directors, managers, representatives, or
				  owners:
1. failure to remit taxes and fees
				  collected from applicants for title transfers;
2. repeated late filings;
3. operating as an auto title company or
				  public tag agent without a license or authorization for each location, with an
				  expired license or authorization, or without a valid surety bond on file with
				  the Office of Motor Vehicles;
4.
a. the issuance of more than one temporary
				  registration (T-marker) to a title applicant; or
b. the issuance of a T-marker without first
				  collecting all taxes and fees and requiring the title applicant to show proof
				  of compliance with the compulsory insurance law;
5. operating from an unlicensed or
				  unauthorized location;
6. changing
				  the ownership of the public tag agent and not reporting in writing to the
				  Office of Motor Vehicles within 30 days from the date of such change;
7. changing the officers or directors of the
				  public tag agent and not reporting in writing to the Office of Motor Vehicles
				  within 30 days from the date of such change;
8. being a principal or accessory to the
				  alteration of documents relevant to a registration or titling transaction that
				  results in material injury to the public records or a short fall in the
				  collection of taxes owed;
9. the
				  forwarding to the Office of Motor Vehicles by a public tag agent of a document
				  relevant to a registration or titling transaction that results in a material
				  injury to the public records, or a short fall in the collection of taxes owed
				  when the public tag agent had knowledge of facts causing such injury or
				  shortfall, and failed to disclose the same to the Office of Motor
				  Vehicles;
10. conviction of, or an
				  entry plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, any felony or conviction of, or an
				  entry plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, any criminal charge, an element of
				  which is fraud;
11. fraud, deceit,
				  or perjury in obtaining any license issued under this Chapter;
12. failure to maintain at all times during
				  the existence of the authorization, all qualifications required for issuance or
				  renewal of the authorization;
13.
				  any material misstatement of fact or omission of fact in any application for
				  the issuance or renewal of an authorization for a public tag agent;
14. the repeated submission of checks which
				  have been dishonored by the bank on which the check was drawn.