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A "chop shop" is any building, lot, or other premises where
any person has been engaged in altering, destroying, disassembling,
dismantling, reassembling, or storing any motor vehicle or motor
vehicle part known to be illegally obtained by theft, fraud, or
conspiracy to defraud, in order to do either of the following:
   (a) Alter, counterfeit, deface, destroy, disguise, falsify, forge,
obliterate, or remove the identity, including the vehicle
identification number, of a motor vehicle or motor vehicle part, in
order to misrepresent the identity of the motor vehicle or motor
vehicle part, or to prevent the identification of the motor vehicle
or motor vehicle part.
   (b) Sell or dispose of the motor vehicle or motor vehicle part.

Last modified: January 12, 2009