TITLE 5

Businesses and Professions

CHAPTER 5-38

Automobile Body Repair Shops

SECTION 5-38-4



   § 5-38-4  Practices for which license is

required. –

(a) An annual license shall be issued to businesses, corporations, and persons

meeting the qualifications set by the auto collision repair licensing board and

paying the required fees. Qualification shall be set by the auto collision

repair licensing board and approved by the director.



   (b) No person, firm, or corporation shall engage within this

state in the business of auto body repairing or painting or enter into

contracts for the repairing, replacing, or painting of auto bodies or parts of

auto bodies or advertise or represent in any form or manner that he, she, or it

is an auto body shop unless that person, firm, or corporation possesses a

license in full force and effect from the department of business regulation

specifying that person, firm, or corporation as licensed to operate or conduct

an auto body shop.



   (c) This chapter applies to every new and used motor vehicle

dealer as defined in § 31-1-19, but does not apply to or require the

obtaining of a license by persons, firms, or corporations whose business is or

may be limited to the making or entering into contracts for the making of

mechanical or electrical repairs or adjustments to motor vehicles.



History of Section.

(P.L. 1974, ch. 111, § 2; P.L. 1985, ch. 181, art. 13, § 2; P.L.

1994, ch. 357, § 1.)