106 STAT. 3394 PUBLIC LAW 102-519—OCT. 25, 1992 (b) CHOP SHOP DEFINITION. —Section 601 of the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Saving Act (15 U.S.C. 2021) is amended by adding at the end the following: (11) The term 'chop shop' means any building, lot, facility, or other structure or premise where one or more persons engage in receiving, concealing, destroying, disassembling, dismantling, reassembling, or storing any passenger motor vehicle or passenger motor vehicle part which has oeen unlawfully obtained in order to alter, counterfeit, deface, destroy, disguise, falsi^, forge, obliterate, or remove the identity, including the vehicle identification number or derivative thereof, of such vehicle or vehicle part and to distribute, sell, or dispose of such vehicle or vehicle part in interstate or foreign commerce.". (c) MAJOR REPLACEMENT PART.—Section 601(8) (15 U.S.C. 2021(8)) is amended to read as follows: "(8) The term 'm£yor replacement part' means any m^or part— "(A) which is not instcdled in or on a motor vehicle at the time of its delivery to the first purchaser and the equitable or legal title to which has not been transferred to any first purchaser, or (B) which is a customized or modified version of an original mcyor part in or on a completed motor vehicle after the manuiacture of such vehicle but before the time of its delivery to the first purchaser.". SEC. 302. THEFT PREVENTION STANDARD. Section 602 of the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act (15 U.S.C. 2022) is amended— (1) by amending subsection (d)(1) to read as follows: "(d)(l) In the case of major parts installed by the motor vehicle manufacturer, the standard under this section may not require any part to have more than a single identification.", and (2) by adding at the end the following: Regulations. "(f)(1))^thin 2 years after the date of the enactment of the Anti Car Theft Act of 1992, the Secretary shall promulgate a vehicle theft standard which conforms to the requirements of this title and which applies with respect to the covered major parts which are installed by all foreign and domestic manufacturers into passenger motor vehicles (other than Ught-duty trucks) in not to exceed one-half of the lines not designated under section 603 as high theft lines. Such rule shall be effective for model years applicable to such passenger motor vehicles as provided in subsection (c)(4) of this section. "(2) Within 3 years after the rule under paragraph (1) is promulgated, the Secret€U7, based on the Attorney General's finding under paragraph (3), shall designate all the remaining such lines of such passenger motor vehicles (other than light-duty trucks) and apply such standard to such lines in conformance with the requirements of this title. Such rule shall also apply to the m^or replacement parts for the miyor parts described m this paragraph. Such rule shall be effective, for model years applicable to such passenger motor vehicles as provided in subsection (c)(4) of this section. "(3) The Attorney General shall make a finding prior to the Secretary's initiation and promulgation of a rule under paragraph (2) that the rule shall be promulgated unless the Attorney (general finds, based upon the information collected and analyzed under
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