LAC 55:III.328. Notification of Removal of License Plate by a Motor Vehicle Dealer

A. Any dealer of motor vehicles who receives a lease return or a previously owned vehicle with the intention of reselling such vehicle shall remove the license plate from such vehicle before resale B. The dealer, upon removal of the license plate, shall destroy the plate. 1. Acceptable methods of destroying the plate are: a. return the license plate to the Office of Motor Vehicles or one of its authorized public tag agents; b. render the plate in such a state that it may not be used on a motor vehicle. C. After the dealer so removes the plate, he shall submit electronic notification to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Office of Motor Vehicles. Electronic notification shall be submitted to the electronic reporting system operated by the Department, or to a system approved by the department and owned and operated by an authorized public tag agent. D. Electronic notification shall be made within 24 hours of the removal of the plate.