1. (a) A salvage vehicle dealer shall maintain a record of each salvage motor vehicle and non-repairable motor vehicle purchased, sold or exchanged by the salvage vehicle dealer.
2. (b) A salvage vehicle dealer's records must be maintained at the licensed business location.
3. (c) Any records required to be maintained by a license holder may be maintained in an electronic format if the record can be reviewed and printed at the licensed business location upon request by a representative of the department at the time the requestor is at the business location.
4. (d) A salvage vehicle dealer must make records available for review and copying upon request by a representative of the department. A request for records may be made by the department in person, by mail or by electronic document transfer.
5. (e) Upon receipt of a request for review of records sent by mail or electronic document transfer from the department, a salvage vehicle dealer must produce copies of specified records to the requestor within 10 calendar days of receipt of the request by mail or electronic document transfer.
6. (f) Occupations Code, §2302.254, establishes the requirements that a salvage vehicle dealer maintain a record of an inventory of component parts purchased by or delivered to the salvage vehicle dealer.

Source Note:The provisions of this §221.71 adopted to be effective December 9, 2015, 40 TexReg 8802.