2006 Code of Virginia § 46.2-1575 - Grounds for denying, suspending, or revoking licenses or certificates of dealer registration or qua...

46.2-1575. Grounds for denying, suspending, or revoking licenses orcertificates of dealer registration or qualification.

A license or certificate of dealer registration or qualification issued underthis subtitle may be denied, suspended, or revoked on any one or more of thefollowing grounds:

1. Material misstatement or omission in application for license, dealer'slicense plates, certificate of dealer registration, certificate ofqualification, or certificate of title;

2. Failure to comply subsequent to receipt of a written warning from theDepartment or the Board or any willful failure to comply with any provisionof this chapter or any regulation promulgated by the Commissioner or theBoard under this chapter;

3. Failure to have an established place of business as defined in 46.2-1510or failure to have as the dealer-operator an individual who holds a validcertificate of qualification;

4. Defrauding any retail buyer, to the buyer's damage, or any other person inthe conduct of the licensee's or registrant's business;

5. Employment of fraudulent devices, methods or practices in connection withcompliance with the requirements under the statutes of the Commonwealth withrespect to the retaking of vehicles under retail installment contracts andthe redemption and resale of those vehicles;

6. Having used deceptive acts or practices;

7. Knowingly advertising by any means any assertion, representation, orstatement of fact which is untrue, misleading, or deceptive in any particularrelating to the conduct of the business licensed or registered or for which alicense or registration is sought;

8. Having been convicted of any fraudulent act in connection with thebusiness of selling vehicles or any consumer-related fraud;

9. Having been convicted of any criminal act involving the business ofselling vehicles;

10. Willfully retaining in his possession title to a motor vehicle that hasnot been completely and legally assigned to him;

11. Failure to comply with any provision of Chapter 4.1 ( 36-85.2 et seq.)of Title 36 or any regulation promulgated pursuant to that chapter;

12. Leasing, renting, lending, or otherwise allowing the use of a dealer'slicense plate by persons not specifically authorized under this title;

13. Having been convicted of a felony;

14. Failure to submit to the Department, within thirty days from the date ofsale, any application, tax, or fee collected for the Department on behalf ofa buyer;

15. Having been convicted of larceny of a vehicle or receipt or sale of astolen vehicle;

16. Having been convicted of odometer tampering or any related violation;

17. If a salvage dealer, salvage pool, or rebuilder, failing to comply withany provision of Chapter 16 ( 46.2-1600 et seq.) of this title or anyregulation promulgated by the Commissioner under that chapter;

18. Failing to maintain automobile liability insurance, issued by a companylicensed to do business in the Commonwealth, or a certificate ofself-insurance as defined in 46.2-368, with respect to each dealer'slicense plate issued to the dealer by the Department; or

19. Failing or refusing to pay civil penalties imposed by the Board pursuantto 46.2-1507.

(1988, c. 865, 46.1-550.5:34; 1989, c. 727; 1990, cc. 197, 954; 1995, cc.767, 816; 1999, c. 217.)