26.14.180 Unlawful Chop Shop

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person who knowingly owns, operates, maintains, or controls a chop shop or conducts operation a chop shop, he or she shall be guilty of a Class three (3) offense. If a conviction of a person under this section is for a second offense or greater the Offense shall be a Class four (4) offense.

(b) The term “ chop shop” means any building, lot, facility, or other structure or premise where on or more person 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 of vehicle part and to distribute, sell, or dispose of such vehicle or vehicle part. The definition of motor vehicle is defined in Section 38.02.010