Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 55 - PUBLIC SAFETY › Part III - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 16 - Public Tag Agents › Section III-1621 - Eligibility, Suspension, Revocation, or Cancellation of Public Tag Agent's Authority (Formerly section 1611)

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, officers, 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, officers, 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, officers,
				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.
15. Allow unauthorized persons access to
				restricted information or areas without successfully passing a background
				check
16. Any item identified in
				the application section
17. poor
				performance on multiple audits of work performed by the public tag
				agent.