Effective: September 4, 2012
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 245 - 129th General Assembly
(A) Each person applying for a used motor vehicle dealer's license shall annually, before the first day of April, make out and deliver to the registrar of motor vehicles, upon a blank to be furnished by the registrar for that purpose, a separate application for license for each county in which such business is to be conducted. The application shall be in the form prescribed by the registrar, shall be signed and sworn to by the applicant, and, in addition to such other information as is required by the registrar, shall include the information specified in divisions (A) to (H) of section 4517.04 of the Revised Code. The application shall be accompanied by a photograph, as prescribed by the registrar, of each place of business operated, or to be operated, by the applicant. An application for a used motor vehicle dealer's license by any person who is subject to division (B)(1) of this section shall be accompanied by documentation, as prescribed by the motor vehicle dealers board, showing that within the immediately preceding six months, an owner, officer, partner, or director of the business entity applying for the used motor vehicle dealer's license has successfully completed a used motor vehicle dealer training course.
(B)(1) Except as provided in divisions (B)(2) and (3) of this section, an owner, officer, partner, or director of a business entity applying for a used motor vehicle dealer license ninety days or more after the effective date of this amendment shall, within six months immediately preceding the date of applying for the license, successfully complete a used motor vehicle dealer training course that complies with the rules of the motor vehicle dealers board adopted under division (C) of this section.
(2) No person applying for a used motor vehicle dealer's license shall be required to have an owner, officer, partner, or director of the business entity complete a used motor vehicle dealer training course if any owner, officer, partner, or director of the business entity held a used or new motor vehicle dealer's license within the two-year period immediately preceding the date of application and the previously held license was not revoked or suspended.
(3) No person applying for a used motor vehicle dealer's license shall be required to have an owner, officer, partner, or director of the related business entity complete a used motor vehicle dealer training course if the person holds a salvage motor vehicle auction license pursuant to Chapter 4738. of the Revised Code or a motor vehicle auction owner license pursuant to Chapter 4517. of the Revised Code.
(C)(1) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the motor vehicle dealers board shall adopt rules governing used motor vehicle dealer training courses. The rules shall do all of the following:
(a) Require a course provider to be an institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, or a relevant professional or trade association that has been in existence for more than five years and has a majority of members who are motor vehicle dealers licensed in this state;
(b) Establish any additional qualifications for course providers;
(c) Establish the course curriculum, which shall include information on applicable federal and state law, including consumer protection laws, and shall require at least six hours but not more than twenty-four hours of instruction;
(d) Prescribe the form for the certificate of completion, which shall require the course provider to attest that the person named on the certificate successfully completed at least six hours of used motor vehicle dealer training;
(e) Establish any other reasonable requirements the board considers necessary.
(2) The board shall maintain information received from any course provider concerning course location, content, length, and cost and shall provide the information to any person upon request.
(3) The registrar shall not issue a used motor vehicle dealer license to any person subject to division (B)(1) of this section unless an owner, officer, partner, or director of a business entity applying for the used motor vehicle dealer license has successfully completed a used motor vehicle dealer training course that complies with the requirements of this division.
(D)(1) Any person offering used motor vehicle dealer training courses shall do all of the following:
(a) Conform the course to rules of the motor vehicle dealers board;
(b) Establish reasonable fees for courses offered;
(c) Issue, on a form prescribed by the board, a certificate of completion to each person who successfully completes a course of instruction;
(d) Notify the board of the course location, content, length, and cost.
(2) A course provider may use information and material from the bureau of motor vehicles and the attorney general.
(E) Nothing in this section shall affect or apply to new motor vehicle dealer licensing.