Pub. L. 102-519, tit. III, sec. 301

DEFINITIONS.

EnactedYear: 1992Length: 274 wordsOfficial source
SEC. 301. DEFINITIONS. (a) Cars, Specialty Vehicles, and Light-Duty Trucks.—Section 601(1) of the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act (15 U.S.C. 2021(1)) is amended to read as follows: “(1) The term ‘passenger motor vehicle’ includes any multi-purpose passenger vehicle and light-duty truck that is rated at 6,000 pounds gross vehicle weight or less.”. 106 STAT. 3394 (b) Chop Shop Definition.— Section 601 of the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act (15 U.S.C. 2021) is amended by adding at the end the following: “(11) The term ‘chop shop’ means any building, lot, facility, or other structure or premise where one or more persons engage in receiving, concealing, destroying, disassembling, dismantling, reassembling, or storing any passenger motor vehicle or passenger motor vehicle part which has been unlawfully obtained in order to alter, counterfeit, deface, destroy, disguise, falsify, forge, obliterate, or remove the identity, including the vehicle identification number or derivative thereof, of such vehicle or vehicle part and to distribute, sell, or dispose of such vehicle or vehicle part in interstate or foreign commerce.”. (c) Major Replacement Part.— Section 601(8) (15 U.S.C. 2021(8)) is amended to read as follows: “(8) The term ‘major replacement part’ means any major part— “(A) which is not installed in or on a motor vehicle at the time of its delivery to the first purchaser and the equitable or legal title to which has not been transferred to any first purchaser, or “(B) which is a customized or modified version of an original major part in or on a completed motor vehicle after the manufacture of such vehicle but before the time of its delivery to the first purchaser.”.