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     32-5-29.   Sales of vehicles prima facie evidence that seller is used car dealer--Particular parties excepted--Violations--Misdemeanor. Proof that a person, firm, partnership, limited liability company, association, trust, or corporation has engaged in the sale of five or more used motor vehicles in the course of one period of twelve consecutive months is prima facie evidence that such person, firm, partnership, limited liability company, association, trust, or corporation is a used car or secondhand car dealer and obliged as such to comply with § 32-5-27, provided that this does not apply to owners of fleets of motor vehicles, banks, savings and loan associations, finance company, bus, truck, taxicab operators, and others, when reselling vehicles acquired by them in the regular course of their principal business, and not acquired to resell at a profit. Any person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: SL 1955, ch 195, §§ 1, 2; SDC Supp 1960, §§ 44.0705, 44.9940; SL 1981, ch 312, § 4; SL 1994, ch 351, § 53.