Transportation Code, §1001.002, provides that the department shall administer and enforce Occupations Code, Chapter 2302. Chapter 2302 provides that a person may not act as a salvage vehicle dealer, salvage vehicle agent, or rebuilder, including storing or displaying vehicles as an agent or escrow agent of an insurance company, unless the department issues that person a license. Chapter 2302 further describes types of salvage business activities that require an endorsement or endorsements on the salvage vehicle dealer license for that person to engage in those activities. This chapter describes the procedures by which a person obtains a salvage vehicle dealer license and the endorsement(s) necessary to engage in the business activities by the salvage vehicle dealer; the procedures to obtain a salvage vehicle agent license; and the rules governing how these license holders must operate, and the procedures by which the department will administer and enforce Occupations Code, Chapter 2302 and this chapter.

Source Note:The provisions of this §221.1 adopted to be effective December 9, 2015, 40 TexReg 8802.