1. Limitations on use. A person using a dealer plate may not operate or permit to be operated a vehicle owned or controlled by a manufacturer or dealer except for:

A. Purposes directly connected with the business of buying, selling, testing, adjusting, servicing, demonstrating or exchanging the vehicle, including use of that vehicle by a full-time employee to attend schools and seminars designed to assist the employee in the testing, adjusting or servicing of vehicles;

B. Personal use by a manufacturer or dealer. There may be no more than one dealer plate for the personal use of the manufacturer or dealer and one dealer plate for the personal use of the immediate family of the dealer;

C. Use of the vehicle in a funeral or public parade when no charge is made for that use;

D. Use by a full-time sales representative, general manager, sales manager or service manager who is on the dealer's payroll but not in the dealer's immediate family or members of that person's household;

E. Use by customers for not more than 7 days to demonstrate the vehicle; or

F. Use by the manufacturer or dealer when the combined weight of the vehicle and the load does not exceed 10,000 pounds unless the vehicle, by design, exceeds 10,000 pounds without a load.

Sec. R-12. 29-A MRSA §1002, sub-§1-A is enacted to read:

1-A.__Limitation on use.__A person using a dealer plate may not permit a vehicle owned or controlled by a manufacturer or dealer to be operated except for the purposes authorized under subsection 1.

Sec. R-13. 29-A MRSA §1002, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 683, Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. B, §5, is amended to read:

3. Penalty. A violation of subsection 1 or subsection 1-A is a traffic infraction for which a minimum penalty of $200 must be adjudged for each infraction. That penalty may not be suspended.