The department may suspend or revoke a license or impose an
administrative penalty if the license holder:
  (1) fails to maintain the qualifications for a license;
  (2) violates any law relating to the purchase, sale,
exchange, storage of salvage motor vehicles and non-repairable motor
vehicles;
  (3) wilfully defrauds a purchaser;
  (4) fails to maintain purchase, sales, and inventory
records as required by Occupations Code, Chapter 2302, or this chapter;
  (5) refuses to permit, or fails to comply with a request
by the department to examine, during normal business hours, the license
holder's records as required by Occupations Code, Chapter 2302 or
this chapter;
  (6) engages in business without the required endorsement;
  (7) engages in business as a salvage vehicle dealer
at a location for which a license has not been issued by the department;
  (8) fails to notify the department of a change of address
or location within 10 days of such change by requesting and obtaining
from the department an amendment to the salvage vehicle dealer's license;

  (9) fails to notify the department of a change of the
salvage vehicle dealer's name or salvage vehicle dealer's ownership
within 10 days of such change by requesting and obtaining from the
department an amendment to the salvage vehicle dealer's license;
  (10) fails to notify the department of the termination
of a salvage vehicle agent within 10 days after such termination;
  (11) fails to remain regularly and actively engaged
in the business for which the salvage vehicle dealer license is issued;
  (12) sells more than five (5) non-repairable motor
vehicles or salvage motor vehicles to the same person in a casual
sale during a calendar year;
  (13) violates any of the provision of Occupations Code,
Chapter 2302, Transportation Code, Chapters 501, 502, or 503, or any
board rule or order promulgated under those statutes;
  (14) uses or allows use of the salvage vehicle dealer's
or salvage vehicle agent's license or business location for the purpose
of the license holder or another person avoiding Occupations Code,
Chapter 2302, Transportation Code, Chapters 501, 502 or 503, or any
board rule or order promulgated under those statutes;
  (15) violates any law, ordinance, rule or regulation
governing the purchase, sale, exchange or storage of salvage motor
vehicles, and non-repairable motor vehicles;
  (16) sells or offers for sale non-repairable motor
vehicles or salvage motor vehicles from any location other than a
licensed salvage vehicle dealer's business location that has been
approved by the department;
  (17) is convicted of a felony after initial issuance
or renewal of the salvage vehicle dealer or salvage vehicle agent
license, or less than three (3) years have elapsed since the termination
of the sentence, parole, mandatory supervision, or probation for a
felony conviction of the license holder;
  (18) makes a false statement, material misrepresentation,
or material omission in any application or other information filed
with the department;
  (19) fails to timely remit payment for administrative
penalties imposed by the department under Occupations Code, §2302.354
and this section;
  (20) engages in business without a license required
under Occupations Code, Chapters 2301, or Transportation Code, Chapter
503;
  (21) operates a salvage motor vehicle or a non-repairable
motor vehicle on the public highways or allows another person to operate
a salvage motor vehicle or a non-repairable motor vehicle on public
highways;
  (22) dismantles a salvage motor vehicle or non-repairable
motor vehicle; or
  (23) deals in used automotive parts as more than an
incidental part of the salvage vehicle dealer's primary business.


Source Note: The provisions of this §221.112 adopted to be effective December 9, 2015, 40 TexReg 8802