Colorado
Colorado dealer licensing
The official agencies and forms for used car dealers in Colorado, and who regulates lending if you carry your own paper.
Dealer board
Open the Colorado Motor Vehicle Dealer Board licensing pages
Colorado Motor Vehicle Dealer Board
Dealer license types
Franchised DealerUsed DealerWholesalerWholesale AuctionFranchise Powersport Vehicle DealerUsed Powersport Vehicle DealerWholesale Powersport Vehicle Dealer
A second registration can apply
If you finance your own customers
The agency above licenses you to sell cars. You may need a separate registration to finance your customers, depending on how much paper you carry. The agency that draws that line is:
Colorado Department of Law, Consumer Credit Unit (Administrator of the UCCC)
- What it is called
- Retail Sales Notification
- Who it covers
- Credit sellers and retail merchants that regularly extend consumer credit as a “creditor”
- The statute
- C.R.S. § 5-6-202
Other agencies you may deal with
Common state offices for setup, licensing, and operations.
Business setup
- Registering the businessColorado Secretary of State
- Sales taxColorado Department of Revenue, Taxation
Licensing
- Salesperson licenseColorado Motor Vehicle Dealer Board
Operating
- Customer complaintsColorado Department of Revenue, Auto Industry Division
- Temporary tagsColorado Department of Revenue, Division of Motor Vehicles
- Titles & platesColorado Department of Revenue, Division of Motor Vehicles
- Vehicle inspectionColorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Official Colorado forms and pages
Applying
Changing something
Looking something up
Filing online
Another state
Opening a new dealership?
The license is only part of what you need.
Corrections. Agencies move their pages and rename their forms constantly. If a link here is dead or wrong, tell us and we will fix it.