Ohio Code 4738.01 – Motor vehicle salvage definitions
As used in sections 4738.01 to 4738.16 of the Revised Code:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4738.01
- Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(A) “Motor vehicle salvage dealer” means any person who engages in business primarily for the purpose of selling salvage motor vehicle parts and secondarily for the purpose of selling at retail salvage motor vehicles or manufacturing or selling a product of gradable scrap metal.
(B) “Salvage motor vehicle” means any motor vehicle which is in a wrecked, dismantled, or worn out condition, or unfit for operation as a motor vehicle.
(C) “Salvage motor vehicle auction” means any person who on the person’s behalf or as an agent for a third party engages in business for the purpose of auctioning salvage motor vehicles.
(D) “Salvage motor vehicle pool” means any person who as an agent for a third party engages in business for the purpose of storing, displaying, and offering for sale salvage motor vehicles.
(E) “Engaging in business” means commencing, conducting, or continuing in business, or liquidating a business when the liquidator thereof holds the liquidator out to be conducting such business; making a casual sale or otherwise making transfers in the ordinary course of business when the transfers are made in connection with the disposition of all or substantially all of the transferor’s assets is not engaging in business.
(F) “Retail sale” or “sale at retail” means the act or attempted act of selling, bartering, exchanging, or otherwise disposing of salvage motor vehicles or salvage motor vehicle parts to a person who purchases the salvage motor vehicle or salvage motor vehicle parts for use as a consumer.
(G) “Authorized purchaser” means a person who purchases a salvage motor vehicle from a salvage motor vehicle auction or salvage motor vehicle pool and who satisfies either of the following criteria:
(1) The person is a motor vehicle salvage dealer who is licensed pursuant to this chapter; a junk yard that is licensed pursuant to section 4737.07 of the Revised Code; a scrap metal processing facility that is licensed pursuant to section 4737.07 of the Revised Code; a used motor vehicle dealer who is licensed pursuant to section 4517.02 of the Revised Code; a salvage dismantler or automotive recycler; or a salvage dealer, junk yard, scrap metal processing facility, used motor vehicle dealer, salvage dismantler, or automotive recycler business authorized to purchase salvage motor vehicles by another state, country, or jurisdiction.
(2) The person does not satisfy the criteria described in division (G)(1) of this section but has purchased not more than a total of five salvage motor vehicles in the current calendar year from any salvage motor vehicle auction or salvage motor vehicle pool located in Ohio.
(H) “Business” includes any activities engaged in by any person for the object of gain, benefit, or advantage either direct or indirect.
(I) “Casual sale” means any transfer of a salvage motor vehicle by a person other than a motor vehicle salvage dealer, salvage motor vehicle auction, or salvage motor vehicle pool, to a person who purchases the salvage motor vehicle for use as a consumer.