2013 Code of Virginia
Title 46.2 - MOTOR VEHICLES.
Chapter 19.2 - Motorcycle Dealers
Section 46.2-1993.47 - Use of motorcycle dealer's license plates on newly purchased motorcycles

§ 46.2-1993.47. Use of motorcycle dealer's license plates on newly purchased motorcycles.

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 46.2-1993.44, any dealer who sells and delivers to a purchaser a motorcycle at a time when the main offices of the Department, its branch offices, or offices of its local agents, are not open for business and the purchaser is therefore unable to register the motorcycle, may permit the purchaser to use, for a period not exceeding five days, on the newly purchased motorcycle, license plates which have been issued to the dealer, provided that, at the time of the purchase, the dealer executes in duplicate, on forms provided by the Commissioner, a certificate bearing the date of issuance, the name and address of the purchaser, the identification number of the motorcycle, the registration number to be used temporarily on the motorcycle, the name of the state in which the motorcycle is to be registered, and whatever other information may be required by the Commissioner. The original of the certificate and a bona fide bill of sale shall be delivered to the purchaser and shall be in the possession of the purchaser at all times when operating the motorcycle under dealer plates. One copy of the certificate shall be retained by the dealer, filed by him, and shall be subject to inspection at any time by the Department's agents. If the motorcycle is to be titled and registered in the Commonwealth, application for title and registration shall be made by the purchaser on the first business day following issuance of the certificate and a copy of the certificate shall accompany the applications.

License plates temporarily used by the purchaser shall be returned to the dealer by the purchaser not later than five days after the issuance of the certificate.

(1996, cc. 1043, 1052.)