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LD 1268 Title Page An Act To Amend the Law on Junkyards, Automobile Graveyards and Automobile Recy... Page 2 of 4
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §3752, sub-§1, ķA, as repealed and replaced by PL
2003, c. 312, §3, is amended to read:

 
A. "Automobile graveyard" does not include:

 
(1) An area used for temporary storage of vehicles or
vehicle parts by an establishment or place of business
that is primarily engaged in doing vehicle repair work
to make repairs to render a motor vehicle serviceable.
In order for a vehicle's storage to be considered
temporary, it must be removed from the site within 180
calendar days of its receipt;

 
(2) An area used by an automobile hobbyist to store,
organize, restore or display antique autos, antique
motorcycles, classic vehicles, horseless carriages,
reconstructed vehicles, street rods or parts of these
vehicles as these vehicles are defined in Title 29-A,
section 101 as long as the hobbyist's activities comply
with all applicable federal and state statutes and
rules and municipal ordinances, other than ordinances
that are more restrictive than this subsection
regarding the storage of vehicles or vehicle parts that
are collected by a hobbyist. For the purposes of this
subparagraph, an automobile hobbyist is a person who is
not primarily engaged in the business of selling any of
those vehicles or parts from those vehicles;

 
(3) An area used for the parking or storage of
vehicles, vehicle parts or equipment intended for use
by a municipality, quasi-municipal entity or state or
federal agency;

 
(4) An area used for the storage of operational farm
tractors and related farm equipment, log skidders,
logging tractors or other vehicles exempted from
registration under Title 29-A, chapter 5;

 
(5) An area used for the parking or storage of
vehicles or equipment being offered for sale by a
dealer, equipment dealer, trailer dealer or vehicle
auction business as defined in Title 29-A, section 851;

 
(6) An area used for the storage of vehicles by an
establishment or place of business that is primarily
engaged in business as a new vehicle dealer as defined
in Title 29-A, section 851;


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