301.221. Application to be submitted, contents, requirements to obtain license--fee.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

301.221. Application to be submitted, contents, requirements to obtain license--fee.

Application to be submitted, contents, requirements to obtainlicense--fee.

301.221. 1. The department shall file each application received byit with the required fee, and when satisfied that the applicant, if anindividual, or each of the partners or principal officers of the applicant,if a partnership or a corporation, is of good moral character and that theapplicant, so far as can be ascertained, has complied and will comply withthe provisions of sections 301.217 to 301.229 and the laws of this staterelating to registration of and certificates of title of vehicles, shallissue to the applicant a license to carry on and conduct the kind ofbusinesses, enumerated in section 301.218, specified in the application atthe address therein specified, until the next license renewal date.

2. When the application is being made for licensure as a salvagedealer, the applicant shall obtain a certification by a uniformed member orauthorized or designated employee of the Missouri state highway patrolstationed in the troop area in which the applicant's place of business islocated; except, that in counties of the first classification,certification may be performed by an officer of a metropolitan policedepartment when the applicant's established place of business of salvage isin the metropolitan area where the certifying metropolitan police officeris employed. An applicant shall have a bona fide established place ofbusiness which shall include a permanent enclosed building or structure,either owned in fee or leased and actually occupied as a place of businessby the applicant for:

(1) Selling used parts of or used accessories for vehicles; or

(2) Salvaging, wrecking or dismantling vehicles for resale of theparts thereof; or

(3) Rebuilding and repairing wrecked or dismantled vehicles; or

(4) Processing scrapped vehicles or vehicle parts.

3. The applicant's place of business shall be a place wherein thepublic may contact the owner or operator, in person or by telephone, at anyreasonable time, and wherein shall be kept and maintained the books,records, files, tools, equipment and other matters required and necessaryto conduct the business.

4. The application shall include a photograph, not to exceed eightinches by ten inches, showing the building and business premises and shallaccompany the initial application but will not be required for subsequentrenewals unless substantial changes have been made to the building orbusiness premises.