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and the assessment shall be in the amount of $5 for each and every
six (6) month period the vehicle or body or chassis thereof remains
not scrapped, dismantled, or destroyed.

§ 5-203.1. Conveyance of title to Wrecker or Scrap Processor.

(a) Any owner of a vehicle, or body or chassis thereof, which is
to be scrapped, dismantled, or destroyed, who sells or transfers the
vehicle, or part thereof, to a wrecker or scrap processor as defined
in this Article, shall endorse an assignment and warranty of title on
the certificate of title for such vehicle, or body or chassis thereof, and
deliver the certificate of title at the time of sale or transfer to the
wrecker or scrap processor, whether said certificate of title was issued
by this State or any other state.

Any person, firm or corporation holding an assigned certificate of
title or any other such evidence of ownership acceptable to the De-
partment for a vehicle to be destroyed, who shall sell or transfer the
vehicle to a wrecker or scrap processor, may endorse a re-assignment
and warranty of title upon forms prescribed by the Department with-
out the necessity of previously securing a certificate of title in the
name of the assignee.

§ 5-203.2. Scrap Processor Need not Obtain Title Certificate.

Any scrap processor who purchases or otherwise acquires a motor
vehicle for purpose of wrecking, dismantling, or demolition is not
required to obtain a certificate of title for such motor vehicle in his
own name. After the motor vehicle has been demolished, processed
or changed so that it physically is no longer a vehicle, the scrap
processor shall surrender the certificate of title for cancellation or
any other evidence of ownership acceptable to the Department. The
Department shall issue such forms, rules, and regulations as are
appropriate governing the surrender of auction sales receipts and
certificates of title.

§ 5-204. Scrap Processor to forward title to Department.

Every scrap processor, licensed under this article, may forward
the certificate of title, issued under this article, upon which an assign-
ment or re-assignment and warranty of title has been properly en-
dorsed, or other acceptable evidence of ownership for a vehicle
formerly titled in this state, to the Department after the scrap
processor has completely destroyed the vehicle described on the cer-
tificate of title or evidence of ownership. The Department shall have
the right to determine acceptability of such evidence of ownership.

§ 5-205. Department to pay fee for vehicles totally destroyed.

The Department shall pay a fee of ten dollars ($10.00) for each
vehicle which has been completely destroyed upon presentation by
the scrap processor to the Department of the certificate of title
or other acceptable evidence of ownership for a vehicle formerly
titled in this state, the manufacturer's serial or identification number
plate, satisfactory proof that the vehicle has been completely de-
stroyed and any other information the Department may deem neces-
sary. The Department shall disburse this fee in the following man-
ner: Five Dollars ($5.00) to a scrap processor and five dollars