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2. Dealers must be licensed. A person may not engage in the
business of buying, selling, exchanging, offering to negotiate,
negotiating or advertising a sale of vehicles unless that person
has been issued a license under this subchapter. A dealer licensed
by any other jurisdiction who sells vehicles only to licensed
dealers in this State is exempt from this subsection. Violation of
this subsection is a Class E crime.

 
Sec. 10. 29-A MRSA §1002, sub-§4, ¶D is enacted to read:

 
D. A vehicle to which a service vehicle plate is attached
must have the name of the licensed dealership on the sides
of the vehicle in letters at least 3 inches in height and
clearly visible.__The name of any other business may not be
displayed on the sides of the vehicle to which the service
vehicle plate is attached.

 
Sec. 11. 29-A MRSA §1258, sub-§1, ¶C, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 683,
Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. B, §5, is amended to read:

 
C. Members of the board are entitled to compensation
expenses only in accordance with Title 5, chapter 379.

 
Sec. 12. 29-A MRSA §1258, sub-§2, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 683,
Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. B, §5, is amended to read:

 
A. The board shall meet at least annually once every 2
years and may hold as many meetings as necessary.

 
Sec. 13. 29-A MRSA §2106, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 683, Pt.
A, §2 and affected by Pt. B, §5, is amended to read:

 
1. Odometer. A person is guilty of a Class D C offense if
that person:

 
A. Disconnects, changes or tampers with the odometer of a
motor vehicle with the intent to misrepresent or change the
number of miles indicated on the odometer; or

 
B. When the odometer reading differs from the number of
miles a vehicle has been driven, knowingly offers for sale
that motor vehicle without disclosing that the actual
mileage is unknown or is known to be different than the
odometer reading.

 
Sec. 14. 29-A MRSA §2115, as corrected by RR 2003, c. 2, §93, is
amended to read:


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