HB 2307 -- Motor Vehicles and Driver's Licenses

Sponsor:  Cooper

This bill changes the laws regarding driveaway license plates,
motor vehicles, motor vehicle dealers, and driver's licenses.  In
its main provisions, the bill:

(1)  Specifies that driveaway license plates can only be used by
an owner, corporate officer, or employee of a business to which
the plate was issued;

(2)  Requires an applicant for a driveaway license plate to
provide the business name, address, telephone number, business
owner's full name, birth date, driver's or nondriver's license
number, home address, home telephone number, signature, printed
name of the business owner or person making the application, and
a statement explaining the usage of the driveaway plate.  The
applicant must also provide proof of financial responsibility
sufficient to cover each motor vehicle the applicant will operate
during the registration period.  If any of the information
provided in the application changes, the applicant must report
the change to the Department of Revenue within 10 days of the
change.  Any violation will result in the revocation of the
applicant's driveaway license, and anyone knowingly using a
revoked license plate will be guilty of a misdemeanor;

(3)  Prohibits an entity that finances or establishes a line of
credit that enables a motor vehicle dealer to purchase a vehicle
from holding, or keeping a dealer from holding, any certificate
of ownership as part of the financing or line of credit.  Anyone
holding a certificate from a dealer as part of that financing or
line of credit will be guilty of a class A misdemeanor for a
first offense and a class D felony for any subsequent offense;

(4)  Requires certain records of a dealer or person operating a
public garage to be kept for five years instead of the current
three years;

(5)  Specifies that any dealer who knowingly makes a false
statement or omits a material fact in a monthly sales report to
the department will be guilty of a class A misdemeanor;

(6)  Specifies that if the department director reasonably
believes that a certificate of ownership, license plate, or
license plate tab was obtained fraudulently, the person in
possession of the item must surrender it to the department
director or his or her designated representative upon request.
Any person failing to surrender the item will be guilty of a
class A misdemeanor;

(7)  Specifies that any person, partnership, corporation,
company, or association that has a second or subsequent
conviction of selling six or more vehicles in a calendar year
with certain exceptions will be guilty of a class D felony.
Currently, any violation is a class A misdemeanor;

(8)  Requires the department to immediately revoke the business
license, dealer license plates, and all temporary unused license
plates issued to any motor vehicle dealer or manufacturer, boat
dealer or manufacturer, public or wholesale motor vehicle
auction, or wholesale motor vehicle dealer that the department
director or his or her representative determines through
reasonable means is uninhabited or abandoned;

(9)  Adds a nondriver identification card to the provisions
regarding the forms of identification that are unlawful to
possess or display if it has been canceled, suspended, revoked,
or is knowingly factitious; and

(10)  Authorizes the department director to prosecute anyone who
knowingly makes a false statement regarding a driver's license or
commercial driver's license within one year, but no later than
six years, after the department director first discovers the
falsity.

Missouri House of Representatives
95th General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Last Updated September 14, 2010 at 3:13 pm