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.)
