Idaho Code

Idaho Code § 49-412 (2026)

Vehicle dealer loaner plate. 

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Vehicle dealer loaner plate. 

(1) A dealer, owning a vehicle may obtain, upon application to the department upon a proper form and payment of the fee required, and display on a vehicle loaned to a customer, a loaner vehicle number plate. The plate shall be the same design and numbering system as the plate issued for passenger vehicles or motorcycles.

(2)  The fee for each loaner plate or registration sticker shall be as provided in section 49-402(1), Idaho Code, for new vehicles.
(3)  All such fees shall be paid to the state treasurer and deposited to the state highway account.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases, 1962–2001 · leading case: Agric. Servs., Inc. v. Fitzgerald (In Re Field), 263 B.R. 323 (Bankr. D. Idaho 2001).
Agric. Servs., Inc. v. Fitzgerald (In Re Field), 263 B.R. 323 (Bankr. D. Idaho 2001). · cites it 2× “7 In considering former Idaho Code § 49-412 , the predecessor of § 49-510, this Court held that regardless of whether the interest a party was claiming in a trailer was a security interest or a lessor’s interest, the interest was perfected by notation of the interest on the…”
First Sec. Bank of Idaho, N.A. v. Woolf, 726 P.2d 792 (Idaho Ct. App. 1986). · cites it 4× “The bank perfected a security interest in the vehicle as provided in I.C. § 49-412, by submitting the endorsed certificate to the Idaho Department of Transportation.”
Gulf Chem. Employees Fed. Credit Union v. Williams, 693 P.2d 1092 (Idaho Ct. App. 1984). · cites it 2× “For that reason the lender was unable to perfect a security interest in the manner required by I.C. § 49-412. The borrower later defaulted on the loan and apparently disposed of the car.”
Fitzgerald v. Union Bank (In Re Brimhall), 13 B.R. 942 (Bankr. D. Idaho 1981). · cites it 4× “I.C. § 49-412 reads as follows: “No lien or encumbrance on any vehicle registered under the laws of this state created subsequent to the effective date of this act, irrespective of whether such registration was effected prior or subsequent to the creation of such lien or…”
Am. Mach. Co. v. Fitzpatrick, 443 P.2d 1013 (Idaho 1968). · cites it 2× ““A person who makes, alters or repairs any article of personal property, at the request of the owner, has a lien on the same for his reasonable charges for work done and materials furnished, and may retain possession of the same until the charges are paid.”
Pac. Fin. Corp. v. Axelsen, 368 P.2d 430 (Idaho 1962). · cites it 2× “Defendant contends that the rule of comity is not applicable here because of the provision of our law to the effect that no chattel mortgage, or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage, is valid as against creditors or subsequent purchasers or encumbrancers without notice,…”
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