An Act To Amend the Law on Junkyards, Automobile Graveyards and Automobile Recycling Businesses
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1268
Committee Amendment CA_A_S156 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT A" to S.P. 448, L.D. 1268, Bill, 
Act To 
Amend the Law on Junkyards, 
Automobile Graveyards 
Automobile Recycling Businesses" 
"An 
and 
Amend the bill in section 1 by striking out all of paragraph 
A (page 1, lines 6 to 49 and page 2, lines 2 to 19 in L.D.) and 
inserting in its place the following: 
'A. 
"Automobile graveyard" does not include: 
(1) 
An area used for temporary storage of vehicles or 
vehicle parts by an establishment or place of business 
that is primarily engaged in doing vehicle repair work 
to make repairs to render a motor vehicle serviceable. 
In order 
for 
a 
vehicle's storage to 
be 
considered 
temporary, it must be removed from the site within 180 
calendar days of its receipt: 
(2) 
An area used by an automobile hobbyist to store, 
organize, 
restore or display antique autos, 
antique 
motorcycles, 
classic 
vehicles, 
horseless 
carriages, 
reconstructed vehicles, street rods or parts of these 
vehicles as these vehicles are defined in Title 29-A, 
section 101 as long as the hobbyist's activities comply 
with all applicable federal 
and state statutes and 
rules and municipal ordinances, other than ordinances 
that 
are 
more 
restrictive 
than 
this 
subsection 
regarding the storage of vehicles or vehicle parts that 
are collected by a hobbyist, except that a municipal 
ordinance 
may 
reguire 
areas 
used 
by 
an 
automobile 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT .~. to S.P. 448, L.D. 1268 
hobbyist to comply with the screening requirements in 
section 
3754-A, 
subsection 1, 
paragraph 
A 
and 
the 
standards in section 3754-A, subsection 5, paragraph A, 
paragraph at subparagraph (1) and paragraph C. 
For the 
purposes of this subparagraph, an automobile hobbyist 
is 
a 
person 
who 
is not primarily engaged 
in the 
business of selling any of those vehicles or parts from 
those vehicles; 
(3) 
An 
area used 
for 
the 
parking 
or 
storage of 
vehicles, vehicle parts or equipment intended for use 
by a municipality, quasi-municipal entity or state or 
federal agency; 
(4) 
An area used for the storage of operational farm 
tractors 
and 
related 
farm 
equipment, 
log skidders, 
logging 
tractors 
or 
other 
vehicles 
exempted 
from 
registration under Title 29-A, chapter 5; 
(5) 
An 
area used 
for 
the parking or 
storage 
of 
vehicles or equipment being offered for 
sale by 
a 
dealer, 
equipment dealer, trailer dealer or vehicle 
auction business as defined in Title 29-A, section 851; 
(6) 
An area used for the storage of vehicles by an 
establishment or place of business that is primarily 
engaged in business as a new vehicle dealer as defined 
in Title 29-A, section 851; 
(7) 
An area used for temporary storage of vehicles by 
an establishment or place of business that is primarily 
engaged in business as an insurance salvage pool. 
In 
order 
for 
a 
vehicle' s 
storage 
to 
be 
considered 
temporary under this subparagraph, the vehicle must be 
removed from the site wi thin 180 days of receipt of 
title by the business; or 
(8) 
An 
area 
used 
for 
the parking or 
storage of 
operational 
commercial 
motor 
vehicles, 
special 
equipment or special mobile equipment as defined in 
Title 29-A, 
section 101 that is temporarily out of 
service but is expected to be used by the vehicle or 
equipment owner or by an operator designated by the 
owner. 
This subsection does not exempt an .area used 
for the parking or storage of equipment or vehicles 
that are not operational while stored or parked in the 
area. • 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT .~. to S.P. 448, L.D. 1268 
Further amend the bill in section 5 in subsection 10 in the 
2nd and 3rd lines (page 3, lines 49 and 50 in L.D.) by striking 
the following: 
automobile recycling business' 
Further amend the bill in section 5 in subsection 10 in the 
64th line (page 4, line 1 in L.D.) by striking the following: 
L 
automobile recycling business' 
SUMMARY 
The amendment keeps the automobile hobbyist exemption in the 
laws governing automobile graveyards and amends the exemption to 
provide that municipal ordinances may require areas that are used 
for hobbyist activities to comply with screening requirements and 
certain environmental standards. 
The amendment also strikes a 
reference to automobile recycling businesses in the operating 
standards for junkyards and automobile graveyards. 
fISCAL ~OT£ t(E(ji iRED 
~ee attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 05106/05 ~ac-
LD 1268 
LR 0381(02) 
An Act To Amend the Law on Junkyards, Automobile Graveyards and Automobile Recycling 
Businesses 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment ,~ 
Committee: Natural Resources 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Current Cost - State Mandate 
State Mandate 
New or Expanded Activity 
Requiring that certain municipal and county officers must provide 
certain public hearing notices to the Secretary of State represents an 
unfunded state mandate; the costs are likely to be relatively 
insignificant. 
Unit Affected 
Municipality 
County 
LR038 1(2) - Fiscal Note - Page I of I 
Costs 
Insignificant