Oklahoma § 47-1502 - Definitions

§ 47-1502. Definitions

As used in the Motor Vehicle Chop Shop, Stolen and Altered

Property Act:

1. "Chop shop" means any building, lot or other premise where

one or more persons are or have been knowingly engaged in altering,

destroying, disassembling, dismantling, reassembling, or knowingly

storing any motor vehicle, or motor vehicle part known to be

illegally obtained by theft, fraud or conspiracy to defraud, in

order to either:

a.

alter, counterfeit, deface, destroy, disguise,

falsify, forge, obliterate, or remove the identity,

including the vehicle identification number of such

motor vehicle or motor vehicle part, in order to

misrepresent the identity of such motor vehicle or

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motor vehicle part, or to prevent the identification

of such motor vehicle or motor vehicle part; or

b.

sell or dispose of such motor vehicle or motor vehicle

part.

2. "Motor vehicle" means and includes every device in, upon, or

by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn

upon a highway, which is self-propelled or which may be connected to

and towed by a self-propelled device, and also includes any and all

other land-based devices which are self-propelled but which are not

designed for use upon a highway, including but not limited to, farm

machinery and construction equipment.

3. "Person" means and includes a natural person, company,

corporation, unincorporated association, partnership, professional

corporation, and any other legal entity.

4. "Unidentifiable" means that the uniqueness of a motor

vehicle or motor vehicle part cannot be established by either expert

law enforcement investigative personnel specially trained and

experienced in motor vehicle theft investigative procedures and

motor vehicle identification examination techniques, or by expert

employees of not-for-profit motor vehicle theft prevention agencies

specially trained and experienced in motor vehicle theft

investigation procedures and motor vehicle identification

examination techniques.

5. "Vehicle identification number" means a number or numbers, a

letter or letters, a character or characters, a datum or data, a

derivative or derivatives, or a combination or combinations thereof,

used by the manufacturer or Service Oklahoma for the purpose of

uniquely identifying a motor vehicle or motor vehicle part. The

term shall include, but not be limited to, a number or numbers, a

letter or letters, a character or characters, a datum or data, a

derivative or derivatives, or a combination or combinations thereof.

Added by Laws 1988, c. 158, § 2, operative July 1, 1988. Amended by

Laws 2022, c. 282, § 194, emerg. eff. May 19, 2022.