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168.27.22

Statute ID: 20235

Statute Function ID: 40278

Motor Vehicle Dealers - Trailers/Motorized bikes - Dealer license violations

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Offense Level:

Misdemeanor (M)

General Offense Code:

DWI/Traffic/Vehicle Regulation (4)

Offense Summary Code & Rank:

Traffic/Accidents(exclude DWI) (J) (Rank 28)

Detailed Offense Code:

Traffic/Transportation (499)

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Function Text:

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Description

90Z

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Payable:

Yes

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Statute Number:

168.27.22

Enactment Date:

Jun 14, 2025

Effective Date:

Jul 1, 2025

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Motor Vehicle Dealers - Trailers/Motorized bikes - Dealer license violations

Statute ID:

20235

Created:

Jun 17, 2025 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Jun 17, 2025 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Added

Legal Analyst Comment:

Amended 2025 SS1 Art2 Sec23; Effective 07/01/2025

Summary Text:

Motor Vehicle Dealers - Trailers/Motorized bikes - Dealer license violations

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/168/27.html

Legislative Session:

2025 - Special 1

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Jun 17, 2025

(a) Any person, copartnership, or corporation having a permanent enclosed commercial building or structure either owned in fee or leased and engaged in the business, either exclusively or in addition to any other occupation, of selling motorized bicycles, boat trailers, horse trailers, or snowmobile trailers, may apply to the registrar for a dealer's license. Upon payment of a $10 fee the registrar must license the applicant as a dealer for the remainder of the calendar year in which the application was received. The license may be renewed on or before the second day of January of each succeeding year by payment of a fee of $10.

(b) The registrar shall must issue to each dealer, upon request of the dealer, up to 50 dealer plates as provided in subdivision 16 upon payment of $5 for each plate. The plates may be used in the same manner and for the same purposes as is provided in subdivision 16. Except for motorized bicycle dealers, the registrar must also issue to the dealer, upon request of the dealer, "in-transit" plates as provided in subdivision 17 upon payment of a fee of $5 for each plate.

(c) This subdivision does not abrogate any of the provisions of this section relating to the duties, responsibilities, and requirements of persons, copartnerships, or corporations engaged in the business, either exclusively or in addition to other occupations, of selling motor vehicles or manufactured homes, except that a seller of boat trailers, utility trailers, or snowmobile trailers who is licensed under this subdivision is not required to have a contract or franchise with a manufacturer or distributor of new boat trailers, utility trailers, or new snowmobile trailers the seller proposes to sell, broker, wholesale, or auction. This section does not require a manufacturer of snowmobile trailers whose manufacturing facility is located outside of the metropolitan area as defined in section 473.121 to have a dealer's license to transport the snowmobile trailers to dealers or retail outlets in the state.