ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
MOTOR VEHICLE DIVISION
810-5-1-.227. The Issuance of Temporary License Tags/Registration
Certificates by Dealers or Manufacturers of Mobile Homes, Trailer Coaches, Travel
Trailers or House Trailers, and by Dealers Appointed by the Department of Revenue
as Designated Agents (Other than Probate Judges).
(1) For the purposes of this regulation, each reference to "agent"
shall apply to manufacturers or dealers of mobile homes, trailer coaches, travel
trailers, or house trailers who have qualified under the provisions of Section
32-6-212 to issue temporary license tags and registration certificates in accordance
with Act 79-817. Furthermore, the term "agent" shall include motor vehicle dealers
who have been appointed as "designated agents" as defined in Section 32-8-2
who elect to issue temporary tags and registration certificates. For purposes
of this regulation the term "agent" shall not include Probate Judges or License
Commissioners.
(2) Each agent will obtain temporary tags and registration certificates
from the Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division. Agents shall remit a
fee of $2.25 for each temporary tag requested.
(3) The Department, upon receipt of the remittance, shall forward
the temporary tags to the agent. Furthermore, the Department will be responsible
for the distribution of the portion of the $2.25 fee which accrues to the county
where the temporary tag is issued.
(4) If an agent deems it necessary to void a temporary tag(s) a
credit should be claimed when ordering subsequent temporary tags. All voided
temporary tags and registration certificates for same shall be forwarded to
the Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division, by the close of business
the next business day.
(5) If an agent should decide to cease the issuing of temporary
tags, all unissued tags must be returned to the Department of Revenue, Motor
Vehicle Division, and an application for refund for fees previously paid may
be filed with the Department.
(6) The agent, upon issuing of a temporary tag, shall forward the
original copy of the registration certificate to the Department of revenue,
Motor Vehicle Division, by the close of business the next business day in accordance
with Section 40-12-258, Code of Alabama 1975.
(7) Agents, in issuing temporary tags, shall print, in ink, complete
information as to vehicle ownership, make, model, vehicle identification numbers
and date of issuance. Any erasures or other alterations of the information required
on a temporary tag or registration receipt will render it void, and of no value
to the person or vehicle described thereon.
(8) Temporary tags are to be displayed by the purchaser in the
rear window of the vehicle for which it was purchased. If secured for a commercial
vehicle, the temporary tag is to be posted in a location conspicuous to law
enforcement officers, for example, in the normal tag frame for a mobile home.
(Alabama Dept. of Revenue Motor Vehicle Division, Robert B. McCain; adopted
September 7, 1983; effective date October 14, 1983.) (Authority: §32-6-218)
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