(a) No dealer shall engage in brokering a retail sales transaction without first paying the fee required by subdivision (d) of Section 9262 and obtaining from the department an autobrokerâs endorsement to the dealerâs license. An autobrokerâs endorsement shall be automatically cancelled upon the cancellation, suspension, revocation, surrender, or expiration of a dealerâs license. (b) Upon the issuance of an autobrokerâs endorsement to a dealerâs license, the department shall furnish the dealer with an autobrokerâs log. The autobrokerâs log shall remain the property of the department and may be taken up at any time for inspection. (c) The autobrokerâs log shall contain spaces sufficient for the dealer to record the following information with respect to each retail sale brokered by that dealer: (1) Vehicle identification number of brokered vehicle. (2) Date of brokering agreement. (3) Selling dealerâs name, address, and dealer number. (4) Name of consumer. (5) Brokering dealerâs name and dealer number. (d) Nothing in this code prohibits a dealer who has been issued an autobrokerâs endorsement to his or her dealerâs license from delivering, with the selling dealerâs written approval, motor vehicles that have been sold pursuant to a duly executed motor vehicle purchase agreement or obtaining a consumerâs signature on a selling dealerâs motor vehicle purchase agreement that has already been executed by the selling dealer. (e) When brokering a retail sale as an agent of the consumer, selling dealer, or both, the brokering dealer owes a fiduciary duty of utmost care, integrity, honesty, and loyalty in dealings with its principal or principals. (f) For purposes of this section and Sections 11736, 11737, and 11738, âconsumerâ means any person who retains a dealer to perform brokering services in connection with a retail sale.
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