| (a) The dealer, or a federal, state, or local governmental
agency, is responsible for the safekeeping of preprinted Internet-down
temporary tags and shall store them in a secure place, and promptly
destroy any expired tags. The dealer, or a federal, state, or local
governmental agency shall report any loss, theft, or destruction of
preprinted Internet-down temporary tags to the department within 24
hours of discovering the loss, theft, or destruction.
(b) A dealer, or a federal, state, or local governmental
agency, may use a preprinted Internet-down temporary tag up to 12
months after the date the preprinted Internet-down temporary tag is
created. A dealer, or a federal, state, or local governmental agency,
may create replacement preprinted Internet-down temporary tags up
to the maximum allowed, when:
(1) a dealer, or a federal, state, or local governmental
agency, uses one or more preprinted Internet-down temporary tags and
then enters the required information in the temporary tag database
after access to the temporary tag database is again available; or
(2) a preprinted Internet-down temporary tag expires.
(c) The number of preprinted Internet-down temporary
tags that a dealer, or federal, state, or local governmental agency,
may create is equal to the greater of:
(1) the number of preprinted Internet-down temporary
tags previously allotted by the department to the dealer or a federal,
state, or local governmental agency;
(2) 30; or
(3) 1/52 of the dealer's, or federal, state, or local
governmental agency's, total annual sales.
(d) For good cause shown, a dealer, or a federal, state,
or local governmental agency, may obtain more than the number of preprinted
Internet-down temporary tags described in subsection (c) of this section.
The director of the Motor Vehicle Division of the department or that
director's delegate may approve, in accordance with this subsection,
an additional allotment of preprinted Internet-down temporary tags
for a dealer, or a federal, state, or local governmental agency, if
the additional allotment is essential for the continuation of the
dealer's, or a federal, state, or local governmental agency's, business.
The director of the Motor Vehicle Division of the department, or a
federal, state, or local governmental agency, or that director's delegate
will base the determination of the additional allotment of preprinted
Internet-down temporary tags on the dealer's, or a federal, state,
or local governmental agency's, past sales, inventory, and any other
factors that the director of the Motor Vehicle Division of the department
or that director's delegate determines pertinent, such as an emergency.
A request for additional preprinted Internet-down temporary tags must
specifically state why the additional preprinted Internet-down temporary
tags are necessary for the continuation of the applicant's business.
(e) Preprinted Internet-down temporary tags created
under subsection (c) of this section apply to the maximum tag limit
established in §215.152 of this title (relating to Obtaining
Numbers for Issuance of Temporary Tags) when the preprinted tag is
entered into the temporary tag database as a sale.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §215.158 adopted to be effective February 11, 2010, 35 TexReg 883; amended to be effective October 6, 2013, 38 TexReg 6646; amended to be effective February 13, 2017, 42 TexReg 571; amended to be effective October 21, 2020, 45 TexReg 7441; amended to be effective February 14, 2022, 47 TexReg 954 |
