Definitions.

For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

(1) AUTOMOTIVE DISMANTLER AND PARTS RECYCLER. A person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of purchasing and dismantling, disassembling or repairing, wrecked, abandoned, or repairable motor vehicles, and selling the usable parts thereof, or selling such wrecked, abandoned, or repairable motor vehicles as a unit at wholesale, or selling the hulk of the vehicle after the salvageable parts have been removed. For the purposes of this article, a person, firm, or corporation shall be presumed to be engaging in the business of an automotive dismantler and parts recycler if such person, firm, or corporation shall possess 10 or more inoperable motor vehicles for more than 30 days, except where such inoperable motor vehicles are being held by a licensed junk dealer or scrap processor for the purpose of recycling scrap metal or are being held by a licensed repair business awaiting repairs, nor shall this term include any person, firm, or corporation which repairs, reconstructs, or reconditions its own motor vehicles for its own use, nor shall it include any person, firm, or corporation disposing of a motor vehicle acquired for its own use.

(2) MOTOR VEHICLE. Every automobile, motorcycle, mobile trailer, semitrailer, truck, truck tractor, trailer, and other device which is self-propelled or drawn, in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, except such as is moved by animal power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

(3) PLACE OF BUSINESS. The place owned or leased and regularly occupied by a person, firm, or corporation licensed under the provisions of this article for the principal purpose of engaging in the business of an automotive dismantler and parts recycler, where the products for sale are displayed and offered for sale and where the books and records required for the conduct of the business are maintained and kept.

(4) SALVAGE POOL or SALVAGE DISPOSAL SALE. A scheduled sale at auction or by private bid of wrecked or repairable motor vehicles by insurance underwriters or dealers, either at retail or wholesale.

(Acts 1979, No. 79-756, p. 1342, §1.)