California Code of Regulations
Title 13 - Motor Vehicles
Division 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Chapter 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Article 4.2 - Vehicle Dealers
Section 272.00 - Business Records
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Pertinent records of a licensed dealer which shall be open to inspection pursuant to Vehicle Code section 320 are those records maintained in the regular course of business insofar as those records are directly concerned with the purchase, sale, rental or lease of a vehicle.
(b) Unless otherwise specified by statute, all business records relating to vehicle transactions shall be retained by the dealership for a period of not less than three years.
(c) Nothing in this section shall relieve a dealer from maintaining records as required by any other state or federal law or regulation.
1. Change
without regulatory effect renumbering former section
410.00 to section 272.00 filed
7-19-93 pursuant to title 1, section
100, California Code of
Regulations (Register 93, No. 30).
2. Amendment of subsections (a)
and (c) and NOTE filed 2-15-2011; operative 3-17-2011 (Register 2011, No.
7).
Note: Authority cited: Section 1651, Vehicle Code. Reference: Sections 320, 4456, 5753, 11709, 11712 and 11714, Vehicle Code.
