MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                       1299

title, as is required by the provisions of this Article. The assumption
of ownership by the wrecker shall be certified on forms prescribed
by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles DEPARTMENT and for-
warded to the Department IT within five (5) days from the date
ownership has been assumed by the wrecker.

If the address of the owner, lienholder, or any other person en-
titled to possession of the vehicle, or part BODY OR CHASSIS
thereof, for which there is no certificate of title, cannot be reason-
ably obtained from the records of the Department of Motor Vehicles,
or by the exercise of reasonable diligence, the wrecker having posses-
sion of the vehicle or part BODY OR CHASSIS thereof shall take
and assume free and clear title to the vehicle, or part BODY OR
CHASSIS thereof, after the aforementioned thirty (30) day period.
The assumption of ownership by the wrecker shall be certified on
forms prescribed by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles IT DE-
PARTMENT and forwarded to the Department IT within five (5)
days from the date ownership was assumed by the wrecker.

(4) The Department of Motor Vehicles shall prescribe forms and
have the authority to promulgate rules and regulations pertaining to
the manner in which a wrecker or scrap processor notifies the
Department of receipt of a vehicle or part BODY OR CHASSIS
thereof to be scrapped, dismantled, or destroyed and the manner
in which an assessment is placed upon a wrecker if a vehicle or part
BODY OR CHASSIS thereof HAS A DESIGNATED MODEL YEAR
IN EXCESS OF SEVEN YEARS AS DETERMINED BY A NA-
TIONAL PUBLICATION OF USED CAR VALUES ADOPTED
FOR USE BY THE DEPARTMENT is not scrapped, dismantled,
or destroyed within one year from the date a wrecker acquires
possession of the vehicle or part BODY OR CHASSIS thereof, and
the assessment shall be in the amount of $5 for each and every six
(6) month period THE VEHICLE or part BODY OR CHASSIS
thereof remains not scrapped, dismantled, or destroyed.

(5)       EVERY SCRAP PROCESSOR, LICENSED UNDER
THIS ARTICLE, MAY FORWARD THE CERTIFICATE OF
TITLE, ISSUED UNDER THIS ARTICLE, UPON WHICH
AN ASSIGNMENT OR RE-ASSIGNMENT AND WARRANTY
OF TITLE HAS BEEN PROPERLY ENDORSED, OR OTHER
ACCEPTABLE EVIDENCE OF OWNERSHIP FOR A VEHI-
CLE FORMERLY TITLED IN THIS STATE, TO THE DE-
PARTMENT AFTER THE SCRAP PROCESSOR HAS COM-
PLETELY DESTROYED THE VEHICLE DESCRIBED ON
THE CERTIFICATE OF TITLE OR EVIDENCE OF OWN-
ERSHIP. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT
TO DETERMINE ACCEPTABILITY OF SUCH EVIDENCE OF
OWNERSHIP.

(6)    THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PAY A FEE OF