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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 565

CHAPTER 565

(Senate Bill 737)

AN ACT concerning

Automotive Dismantlers and Recyclers or Scrap
Processors - License

FOR the purpose of prohibiting a person from engaging in the
business of acquiring or offering to purchase or remove or
remove certain vehicles unless the person is licensed by the
Motor Vehicle Administration; altering the penalties for
violations of certain automotive dismantler and recycler or
scrap processor license requirements; and generally relating
to requiring an automotive dismantler and recycler or scrap
processor license under certain circumstances.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation

Section 15-502 and 27-101(c) and (i)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Transportation

15-502.

(a)  A person may not conduct the business of an automotive
dismantler and recycler or a scrap processor, or engage in the
business of [purchasing] ACQUIRING OR OFFERING TO PURCHASE OR
REMOVE OR REMOVE vehicles which are to be dismantled in whole or
in part by that person for the sale of usable parts, unless the
person is licensed by the Administration under this subtitle.

(b)  A person may not store on any private property for more
than 30 days any vehicle that is to be dismantled, destroyed, or
scrapped, unless the person is an automotive dismantler and
recycler or a scrap processor licensed under this subtitle.

(c)  This section does not prohibit an unlicensed person
from transporting a vehicle to a licensed automotive dismantler
and recycler or a licensed scrap processor for dismantling,
destroying, or scrapping.

27-101.

(c) Any person who is convicted of a violation of any of
the provisions of the following sections of this article is