The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PETITION OF:
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PETITION OF:
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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1: Chapter 266 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof the following new section:
Section ________Whoever sells or offers to sell or solicits offers to purchase a motor vehicle, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the engine or electrical parts of said motor vehicle have been submerged in water, or knowing that it has been used as a police vehicle, a taxicab, a rental vehicle by a motor vehicle agency or a leased vehicle which has been leased to any corporation, individual or entity, without indicating such fact in writing on the bill of sale shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars per vehicle.
Whoever sells or offers to sell or solicits offers to purchase a police vehicle to an ultimate user for purposes other than police purposes, other than the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, without first eliminating any distinguishable police insignias or markings thereon, or painting the exterior of said police vehicle one solid color not resembling any color of a marked state police vehicle, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars per vehicle.
Said police vehicles shall not be registered or titled without first eliminating any distinguishable police insignias or markings thereon, and painting the exterior of every marked state police vehicle one solid color not resembling any color of a state marked police vehicle. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars per vehicle.
Any ultimate user of a motor vehicle that is a former marked police vehicle that has been sold, with any distinguishable police insignias or markings thereon, or a marked state police vehicle of which the exterior of has not been painted one solid color not resembling any color of a marked state police vehicle, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars and by having the vehicle impounded.