HLS 10RS-1197 ORIGINAL
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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 575
BY REPRESENTATIVE BALDONE
MTR VEHICLE/DISMANTLERS: Provides relative to salvaged vehicles with tires and gas
tanks
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 32:809, relative to the sale of salvaged vehicles; to prohibit a dismantler and2
parts recycler, motor vehicle crusher, or scrap metal processor from requiring the3
seller of a motor vehicle to remove the gas tank or tires; to authorize the dismantler4
and parts recycler, motor vehicle crusher, or scrap metal processor to deduct from5
the purchase price an amount equal to the actual cost of disposal of the gas tank or6
tires; to authorize a dismantler and parts recycler, motor vehicle crusher, or scrap7
metal processor who purchases a motor vehicle without a gas tank or tires to deduct8
from the purchase price an amount equal to twice the actual cost of disposal of the9
gas tank or tires; and to provide for related matters.10
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:11
Section 1. R.S. 32:809 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 12
ยง809. Sale of motor vehicle with gas tank or tires13
A. No dismantler and parts recycler, motor vehicle crusher, or scrap metal14
processor shall require the seller of a motor vehicle to remove the gas tank or tires15
from the motor vehicle prior to the sale. The dismantler and parts recycler, motor16
vehicle crusher, or scrap metal processor may deduct from the purchase price an17
amount equal to the actual cost of disposal of the gas tank or tires.18
B. If the dismantler and parts recycler, motor vehicle crusher, or scrap metal19
processor purchases a motor vehicle that is without a gas tank or tires at the time of20 HLS 10RS-1197 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 575
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sale, the dismantler and parts recycler, motor vehicle crusher, or scrap metal1
processor may deduct from the purchase price an amount equal to twice the actual2
cost of disposal of the gas tank or tires.3
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Baldone HB No. 575
Abstract: Prohibits a dismantler and parts recycler, motor vehicle crusher, or scrap metal
processor from requiring the seller of a motor vehicle to remove the gas tank or tires
from the motor vehicle.
Proposed law prohibits a dismantler and parts recycler, motor vehicle crusher, or scrap metal
processor from requiring the seller of a motor vehicle to remove the gas tank or tires from
the motor vehicle prior to the sale.
Proposed law authorizes the dismantler and parts recycler, motor vehicle crusher, or scrap
metal processor to deduct from the purchase price an amount equal to the actual cost of
disposal of the gas tank or tires.
Proposed law provides that if the dismantler and parts recycler, motor vehicle crusher, or
scrap metal processor purchases a motor vehicle that is without a gas tank or tires at the time
of sale, the dismantler and parts recycler, motor vehicle crusher, or scrap metal processor
may deduct from the purchase price an amount equal to twice the actual cost of disposal of
the gas tank or tires.
(Adds R.S. 32:809)