Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 171 - Public Safety Department
Chapter 7400 - MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS
ESTABLISHED PLACE OF BUSINESS
Part 7400.4000 - SALVAGE POOLS, USED PARTS DEALERS, SCRAP PROCESSORS

Subpart 1. Vehicle salvage pool.

A vehicle salvage pool licensee must have an established place of business, which must include as a minimum a commercial building owned or under lease by the licensee. The lease must be for a minimum term of one year. The building must contain office space where the books, records, and files necessary to conduct the business are kept and maintained with personnel available during normal business hours or automatic telephone answering service during normal business hours. Dealership business hours must be conspicuously posted on the place of doing business and readily viewable by the public. The licensee must have an area to display motor vehicles that is owned or under lease by the licensee. The display area may be either indoors or outdoors. The licensee must have a sign that clearly identifies the dealership by name and that is readily viewable by the public.

If a salvage pool maintains more than one place of doing business in a county, the separate places must be listed on the application. If additional places of business are maintained outside of one county, separate licenses must be obtained for each county.

Subp. 2. Used parts dealer or scrap processor.

A used vehicle parts dealer or scrap metal processor licensee must have an established place of business, which must include as a minimum a street address where the books, records, and files necessary to conduct the business are kept and maintained and where there is available during normal business hours either personnel or an automatic telephone answering service.

If a used vehicle parts dealer or scrap metal processor maintains more than one permanent place of doing business, either in one or more counties, the separate places must be listed in the application, but only one used vehicle parts dealer or scrap metal processor license is required.