Rental car permit; application
You need a rental car permit if you want to transport people commercially with rental cars. This does not mean the rental of vehicles to self-drivers.
Description
Transport with hired vehicles is the transport of persons with passenger vehicles which are hired for transport only as a whole and with which the entrepreneur carries out journeys, the purpose, destination and course of which are determined by the hirer and which are not transport with cabs and not bundled demand transport.
This does not mean the renting of vehicles to self-drivers.
You may rent the car only as a whole. The hirer (passenger) determines the purpose, the destination and the course of the trips.
You can obtain the permit for a maximum of five years. After that, you can apply for renewal.
Rental cars differ from cabs in the following ways:
- You may not keep rental cars available in public places/streets for passenger transportation. They must return to the company's place of business after each transport.
- They have no duty to operate and transport.
- The fare is freely agreed. However, they must determine it with a distance meter.
- The color of the vehicles is not specified.
- The number of permits is not limited.
- You must attach a blue order license plate to the rear window of your rental vehicle; the order number is assigned by the licensing authority.
Prerequisites
- The entrepreneur or the persons appointed for the management must be reliable.
- The entrepreneur or the persons appointed for the management must be professionally suitable.
- The company must be secure and financially efficient.
- The company's registered office or place of business must be in Germany (as defined by commercial law).
Procedure
You must apply for the rental car permit at the competent office. Depending on the offer of your competent body, you can download an application form on the Internet.
The competent body conducts a hearing procedure. As part of this, it requests opinions from other bodies, including the following
- Municipalities,
- trade supervisory authorities,
- the Chamber of Industry and Commerce
- the relevant trade unions and professional associations.
After the deadline for the comments has expired, it makes a final decision on the application and informs the applicant in writing of the result.
Deadlines
None
Note: If you wish to apply for a permit renewal, a permit application with required documentation must be submitted to the appropriate office well in advance of the expiration of the expiring permit.
Processing time
Usually, the competent body will decide on your application within three months.
The period can be extended by a maximum of another three months. The prerequisite is that the competent office has announced this in good time (within the first three months) in a written interim decision.
Fees
Frame fee for approval: 50,00 - 500,00 EUR
For regular cases it is
- for the first vehicle: 60 EUR
- for each additional vehicle: 30 EUR
These amounts are not binding for the licensing authority.
In case of excessive administrative expenses, the licensing authority may deviate from them up to the maximum amount of the framework fee.
You may incur additional costs for register information and the preparation of other supporting documents.
Remedy
Filing an objection with the authority that issued the administrative act.
Status: 29.08.2022
Responsible for editing: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wohnen, Bau und Verkehr
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