§ 47-591.8. Transfer of certificate of title - Salvage or junked title - Inspection of certificates of title and vehicles - Destruction of license plates - Reporting of vehicle identification numbers - Time limit.

A.  An automotive dismantler and parts recycler, duly licensed by this act, shall have the authority to transfer the certificate of title to a motor vehicle as a dealer. Prior to the sale of any motor vehicles at salvage pools or salvage disposal sales, a salvage title or junked title shall be issued for any salvage or junked vehicle as defined in Section 1105 of this title.

B.  Any and all certificates of title, whether original, salvage, rebuilt, or junked titles, salvage certificates, other certificates of ownership, or ownership records, as approved by the Oklahoma Tax Commission, to vehicles owned by a licensed automotive dismantler and parts recycler, which vehicles have been dismantled, destroyed, or otherwise processed so that the vehicles are no longer capable of being used as motor vehicles, shall be inspected by properly identified employees or agents of the Oklahoma Used Motor Vehicle and Parts Commission, at least annually, at the place of business of the licensed automotive dismantler and parts recycler. Upon verification that the vehicle is no longer capable of being used as a motor vehicle, the employee or agent of the Commission shall remove the license plate and the certificate of title, salvage certificate, other certificate of ownership or ownership record from the licensed automotive dismantler and parts recycler.  The Commission shall destroy the license plate and deliver the certificates and ownership records to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

C.  Each licensed automotive dismantler and parts recycler that dismantles, destroys, or otherwise processes vehicles so that the vehicles are no longer capable of being used as motor vehicles, each month, shall report the vehicle identification numbers of the vehicles to the Oklahoma Tax Commission, upon forms prescribed by the Oklahoma Tax Commission. The report shall include any vehicle which is a hull, junked, abandoned or not a complete, self-propelling vehicle, if there is a vehicle identification number for the incomplete vehicle.  The Oklahoma Tax Commission shall cancel said certificates of title.  The vehicle identification numbers on the certificates of titles, salvage titles, other certificates of ownership or ownership records to motor vehicles no longer capable of being used as motor vehicles shall be preserved in the computer files of the Oklahoma Tax Commission for at least five (5) years from the date the certificates of title are delivered by the Commission to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

D.  Each vehicle or incomplete vehicle required to be reported to the Oklahoma Tax Commission by this section shall be reported on or before the fifteenth day of the next succeeding month after the month in which the vehicle or incomplete vehicle was received by the licensed automotive dismantler and parts recycler.  Each vehicle or incomplete vehicle, which is incapable of operation or use on the public roads or has no resale value except as a source of parts, scrap or junk or has an eighty percent (80%) loss in fair market value, possessed by a licensed automotive dismantler and parts recycler on the effective date of this act shall be reported to the Oklahoma Tax Commission within ninety (90) days.  The vehicle identification numbers on all reported vehicles shall be preserved in the computer of the Oklahoma Tax Commission for at least five (5) years, even if the ownership records may have been previously destroyed or surrendered to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

E.  If the vehicle identification number for a vehicle, which is incapable of operation or use on the public roads and has no resale value except as a source of parts, scrap or junk or has an eighty percent (80%) loss in fair market value, is not reported to the Oklahoma Tax Commission, the licensed automotive dismantler and parts recycler shall be required to obtain a junked title for said vehicle.  An Oklahoma licensed automotive dismantler and parts recycler shall not be required to obtain a junked title for a junked vehicle or any other vehicle which is dismantled, destroyed or otherwise processed so that the vehicle is no longer capable of being operated or used on the public roads, if the vehicle is reported to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

Amended by Laws 1988, c. 201, § 6, eff. Jan. 1, 1989; Laws 1989, c. 290, § 8, emerg. eff. May 24, 1989.