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§47-1506.


§47-1506.
   
   A. The Attorney General, any district attorney or any aggrieved person
   may institute civil proceedings against any person in any court of
   competent jurisdiction seeking relief from conduct constituting a
   violation of any provision of the Motor Vehicle Chop Shop, Stolen and
   Altered Property Act. If the plaintiff in such a proceeding proves the
   alleged violation, or its threat, by a preponderance of the evidence,
   any court of competent jurisdiction after due provision for the rights
   of innocent persons, shall grant relief by entering any appropriate
   order or judgment, including, but not limited to:
   
   1. ordering any defendant to be divested of any interest in any
   property;
   
   2. imposing reasonable restrictions upon the future activities or
   investments of any defendant, including prohibiting any defendant from
   engaging in the same type of endeavor as the defendant was engaged in
   previously;
   
   3. ordering the suspension or revocation of a license, permit, or
   prior approval granted by any public agency or any other public
   authority; or
   
   4. ordering the surrender of the charter of a corporation organized
   under the laws of the state or the revocation of a certificate
   authorizing a foreign corporation to conduct business within the state
   upon finding that the board of directors or a managerial agent acting
   on behalf of the corporation, in conducting the affairs of the
   corporation, has authorized or engaged in conduct made unlawful by the
   Motor Vehicle Chop Shop, Stolen and Altered Property Act and that, for
   the prevention of future criminal conduct, the public interest
   requires the charter of the corporation be surrendered and the
   corporation dissolved or the certificate revoked.
   
   B. In a proceeding under this section, injunctive relief shall be
   granted in conformity with the principles that govern the granting of
   relief from injury or threatened injury in other cases, but no showing
   of special or irreparable injury shall have to be made. Pending final
   determination of a proceeding under this section, a temporary
   restraining order or a preliminary injunction may be issued upon a
   showing of immediate danger of significant injury, including the
   possibility that any judgment for money damages might be difficult to
   execute, and, in a proceeding initiated by an aggrieved person, upon
   the execution of proper bond against injury for an injunction
   improvidently granted.
   
   C. Any person injured, directly or indirectly, by conduct constituting
   a violation by any person of Section 3 of this act shall, in addition
   to any other relief, have a cause of action for threefold the actual
   damages sustained by the person.
   
   D. A final judgment or decree rendered against the defendant in any
   civil or criminal proceeding shall estop the defendant in any
   subsequent civil action or proceeding brought by any person as to all
   matters as to which the judgment or decree would be an estoppel as
   between the parties to the civil or criminal proceeding.
   
   E. Notwithstanding any other provision of law providing a shorter
   period of limitations, a civil action under this section may be
   commenced at any time within five (5) years after the conduct made
   unlawful under Section 3 of this act terminates or the cause of action
   accrues or within any longer statutory period that may be applicable.
   If any action is brought by a prosecutor to punish, prevent or
   restrain any activity made unlawful under Section 3 of this act, the
   running of the period of limitations shall be suspended during the
   pendency of such action and for two (2) years following its
   termination.
   
   F. Personal service of any process in an action under this section may
   be made upon any person outside the state if the person has engaged in
   any conduct constituting a violation of Section 3 of this act in this
   state. The person shall be deemed to have thereby submitted to the
   jurisdiction of the courts of this state for the purposes of this
   provision.
   
   G. Obtaining any civil remedy under this section shall not preclude
   obtaining any other civil or criminal remedy under either this act or
   any other provision of law. Civil remedies under this section are
   supplemental and not mutually exclusive.
   

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