CHAPTER 424

S.P. 448 - L.D. 1268

An Act To Amend the Law on Junkyards, Automobile Graveyards

and Automobile Recycling Businesses

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Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §3752, sub-§1, ķA, as repealed and replaced by PL 2003, c. 312, §3, is amended to read: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