§47-1502.

§47-1502.
   
   As used in the Motor Vehicle Chop Shop, Stolen and Altered Property
   Act:
   
   1. "Chop shop" means any building, lot or other premise where one or
   more persons are or have been knowingly engaged in altering,
   destroying, disassembling, dismantling, reassembling, or knowingly
   storing any motor vehicle, or motor vehicle part known to be illegally
   obtained by theft, fraud or conspiracy to defraud, in order to either:
   
   a. alter, counterfeit, deface, destroy, disguise, falsify, forge,
   obliterate, or remove the identity, including the vehicle
   identification number of such motor vehicle or motor vehicle part, in
   order to misrepresent the identity of such motor vehicle or motor
   vehicle part, or to prevent the identification of such motor vehicle
   or motor vehicle part; or
   
   b. sell or dispose of such motor vehicle or motor vehicle part.
   
   2. "Motor vehicle" means and includes every device in, upon, or by
   which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a
   highway, which is self-propelled or which may be connected to and
   towed by a self-propelled device, and also includes any and all other
   land-based devices which are self-propelled but which are not designed
   for use upon a highway, including but not limited to, farm machinery
   and construction equipment.
   
   3. "Person" means and includes a natural person, company, corporation,
   unincorporated association, partnership, professional corporation, and
   any other legal entity.
   
   4. "Unidentifiable" means that the uniqueness of a motor vehicle or
   motor vehicle part cannot be established by either expert law
   enforcement investigative personnel specially trained and experienced
   in motor vehicle theft investigative procedures and motor vehicle
   identification examination techniques, or by expert employees of
   not-for-profit motor vehicle theft prevention agencies specially
   trained and experienced in motor vehicle theft investigation
   procedures and motor vehicle identification examination techniques.
   
   5. "Vehicle identification number" means a number or numbers, a letter
   or letters, a character or characters, a datum or data, a derivative
   or derivatives, or a combination or combinations thereof, used by the
   manufacturer or the Oklahoma Tax Commission for the purpose of
   uniquely identifying a motor vehicle or motor vehicle part. The term
   shall include, but not be limited to, a number or numbers, a letter or
   letters, a character or characters, a datum or data, a derivative or
   derivatives, or a combination or combinations thereof.