Three hours, once a year, on any device. Same player and Listen mode as the 8-hour course, in English and Spanish.
$29 — or free for DealerPronto subscribers
Renewal season opens in spring. Leave your email and we'll send a reminder. Your license, plates, and bond all renew by June 30.
Until then, the MVED-approved 8-hour orientation is open for new dealers.
The requirement
Renewing a Utah dealer license is not just paying a fee. Under Utah Code §41-3-206(3), the Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division may not renew a license unless the renewal applicant completes a three-hour class approved by the division — a class that must include education on new motor vehicle laws and rules. Just like the 8-hour orientation for new dealers, the division approves who may offer the class and what it may cost. No division-approved class, no renewal.
That "new laws and rules" language is why the class is different every year. The legislature changes something about titles, registration, permits, or dealer practice nearly every session, and the renewal class is the state's mechanism for making sure every licensed dealership hears about it. It isn't a rerun of the orientation you took to get licensed — it's a briefing on what changed since last year.
Here the renewal class is much lighter than the orientation. When you first got licensed, the 8-hour course had to be completed by you and your partners, corporate officers, bond indemnitors, and managers — a certificate for every name on the application. The renewal class works differently: the statute lets it be completed by the renewal applicant or any designated representative. One person satisfies the requirement for the dealership.
In practice, that means you can send your office manager, a partner, or whoever actually handles the compliance side of the business. Three hours, one seat, once a year. If your dealership is a one-person operation, that person is you — which is exactly why we're building this to be done from a phone, in an evening, instead of in a classroom across town.
Utah dealer licenses run on an annual cycle that ends June 30. Renewal season opens in the spring, and by the deadline three things need to be current at once: the license itself, your dealer plates, and the $75,000 bond — the bond renews on the same cycle, and your surety will invoice the new premium in the weeks before. The renewal class is the education piece of that same package.
The dealers who have a bad June are the ones who treat those as four separate errands in the last week. Treat them as one spring project instead: when the renewal paperwork shows up, line up the bond renewal, count your plates, and get the three-hour class done early. That's the whole reason the reminder list above exists — leave your email and we'll nudge you while there's still runway before the deadline, not after it.
Our renewal course will run on the same player as our 8-hour orientation: short narrated units on your phone, in English and Spanish, switch languages mid-unit, progress saved automatically. Three hours instead of eight, built fresh each year around what actually changed in Utah motor vehicle law. Planned at $29 — and free for DealerPronto subscribers.
The honest note: under §41-3-206(3), every renewal class and its provider must be approved by the division before it counts toward your renewal — and our renewal course is not yet open and not yet before the division. We won't sell you a seat until a class that satisfies the statute is ready. That's what the notify list is for: leave your email, and you'll hear from us when it opens — with enough time before your June 30 deadline.
If the first licensing year is still fresh in your mind, it helps to see how different renewal is. The first time through, the education requirement is heavy and wide: the 8-hour orientation has to be completed by the applicant and the partners, corporate officers, bond indemnitors, and managers named on the application — each with their own certificate — before the license is issued. Renewal flips both dials. The class drops from eight hours to three, and the headcount drops from everyone on the application to one seat for the whole dealership.
The content is different in kind, too. The orientation teaches the whole system from zero — titles, temporary permits, the bond, consignment, advertising rules — because the state assumes you've never run a dealership before. The renewal class assumes you have, and covers only what's new: the laws and rules that changed since your last renewal. That's why it can't be recorded once and reused forever; it has to be rebuilt every year.
What stays the same is who's in charge of approval. Both classes exist because a statute says so, and both count only when the division has approved the provider and the price. If a course isn't on the division's approved list, finishing it accomplishes nothing — which is exactly why we told you plainly, above, that ours isn't there yet.
Yes. Under §41-3-206(3), the division may not renew a dealer license unless the renewal applicant completes a three-hour, division-approved class covering new motor vehicle laws and rules. It's an annual requirement, tied to the June 30 renewal.
No — that's the 8-hour orientation, for new applicants. The renewal class may be completed by the renewal applicant or any designated representative. One person covers the dealership.
They're separate requirements. The 8-hour orientation is what new applicants complete before the license is issued; renewal takes the three-hour class on that year's new laws and rules. One doesn't substitute for the other.
Your license, your dealer plates, and your $75,000 bond all renew on the same annual cycle. Plan them together in the spring rather than as separate last-week errands.
Not yet. Every renewal class must be division-approved before it counts, and ours isn't open yet. Leave your email above and we'll tell you the moment it is — planned at $29, free for DealerPronto subscribers.
No — new applicants need the 8-hour orientation, which is open now in English and Spanish. The free step-by-step guide covers the rest of the licensing path.