301.218. Licenses required for certain businesses--buyers at salvage pool or salvage disposal sale, requirements--records to be kept of sales by operator.

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301.218. Licenses required for certain businesses--buyers at salvage pool or salvage disposal sale, requirements--records to be kept of sales by operator.

Licenses required for certain businesses--buyers at salvage pool orsalvage disposal sale, requirements--records to be kept of salesby operator.

301.218. 1. No person shall, except as an incident to the sale,repair, rebuilding or servicing of vehicles by a licensed franchised motorvehicle dealer, carry on or conduct the following business unless licensedto do so by the department of revenue under sections 301.217 to 301.229:

(1) Selling used parts of or used accessories for vehicles as a usedparts dealer, as defined in section 301.010;

(2) Salvaging, wrecking or dismantling vehicles for resale of theparts thereof as a salvage dealer or dismantler, as defined in section301.010;

(3) Rebuilding and repairing four or more wrecked or dismantledvehicles in a calendar year as a rebuilder or body shop, as defined insection 301.010;

(4) Processing scrapped vehicles or vehicle parts as a mobile scrapprocessor, as defined in section 301.010.

2. Sales at a salvage pool or a salvage disposal sale shall be openonly to and made to persons actually engaged in and holding a currentlicense under sections 301.217 to 301.221 and 301.550 to 301.573 or anyperson from another state or jurisdiction who is legally allowed in his orher state of domicile to purchase for resale, rebuild, dismantle, crush, orscrap either motor vehicles or salvage vehicles, and to persons who residein a foreign country that are purchasing salvage vehicles for exportoutside of the United States. Operators of salvage pools or salvagedisposal sales shall keep a record, for three years, of sales of salvagevehicles with the purchasers' name and address, and the year, make, andvehicle identification number for each vehicle. These records shall beopen for inspection as provided in section 301.225. Such records shall besubmitted to the department on a quarterly basis.

3. The operator of a salvage pool or salvage disposal sale, orsubsequent purchaser, who sells a nonrepairable motor vehicle or a salvagemotor vehicle to a person who is not a resident of the United States at asalvage pool or a salvage disposal sale shall:

(1) Stamp on the face of the title so as not to obscure any name,date, or mileage statement on the title the words "FOR EXPORT ONLY" incapital letters that are black; and

(2) Stamp in each unused reassignment space on the back of the titlethe words "FOR EXPORT ONLY" and print the number of the dealer's salvagevehicle license, name of the salvage pool, or the name of the governmentalentity, as applicable.

The words "FOR EXPORT ONLY" required under subdivisions (1) and (2) of thissubsection shall be at least two inches wide and clearly legible. Copiesof the stamped titles shall be forwarded to the department.

4. The director of revenue shall issue a separate license for eachkind of business described in subsection 1 of this section, to be entitledand designated as either "used parts dealer"; "salvage dealer ordismantler"; "rebuilder or body shop"; or "mobile scrap processor" license.