WHO IS AN AUTOMOTIVE DISMANTLER AND PARTS RECYCLER?
A. “A person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of purchasing and dismantling, disassembling or repairing, wrecked, abandoned, or repairable motor vehicles and selling 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, not shall this term include any person, firm, or corporation which repairs, reconstructs, or reconditions its own motor vehicles for its own use